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Dear Readers,

I was working on something one evening that normally wouldn't have bothered me. Nothing about it was particularly complicated, yet every small step seemed to require negotiation with myself.

Eventually I stopped. I wasn't pleased about it either. Part of me felt I should have pushed through and finished simply because that's what disciplined people are supposed to do.

The next morning, I opened the same thing again. What had felt strangely heavy the night before took less than half an hour.

Same task. Same person. Very different amount of resistance.

That made me wonder how often we judge the difficulty of something when we're actually experiencing the condition we're attempting it from. Thinking harder didn't make the task easier that evening because the task wasn't really the problem.

When everything feels unusually difficult, pushing harder can feel virtuous. But if effort keeps producing resistance rather than movement, there may be another variable worth changing first.

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I'm glad I didn't force myself through it that night. By morning, the problem that had seemed so stubborn barely looked like a problem anymore.

Not everything that feels hard needs more force.

— Alex

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