[HN Gopher] On doing hard things
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On doing hard things
Author : speckx
Score : 214 points
Date : 2025-07-14 14:50 UTC (3 days ago)
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| chubot wrote:
| Very well written!
| pknomad wrote:
| I suppose I could be more charitable but I feel like title
| doesn't really match with the message of the blog. Otherwise I
| thoroughly enjoyed this feel-good story about persistence and
| micro-improvements. Most of us mortals aren't talented at
| everything and diligent practice is required for most of us to
| get better.
| bee_rider wrote:
| Yeah, somewhat relatedly... I think the real lesson (at least
| if you grew up near the coast) is that everything is hard for
| somebody. I can't really think of a kayak as an easy-to-flip
| craft, but that doesn't really matter for this person's
| journey.
| Rendello wrote:
| It depends on the kayak too.
|
| An extreme example, but: I used to watch this channel from a
| guy that built canoes and kayaks in both modern and
| traditional styles. He says in some videos that the
| traditional hunting kayaks are incredibly unstable and
| uncomfortable to use, because that instability granted them
| superior agility for hunting.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=DtnUq5v7cyw
| ge96 wrote:
| That was pretty cool surfing that wave on the kayak ha at
| 1:27
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| Same principle as aerodynamically unstable fighter jets?
| Rendello wrote:
| But without the benefit of a computer to make hundreds of
| micro-adjustments per second!
| bee_rider wrote:
| Huh, neat. Unfortunately that site doesn't seem to play
| videos correctly on my system. What do they use the agility
| for? Traditional hunting, so I imagine... a bow or
| something, maybe they need to turn quickly to help aim?
| GLdRH wrote:
| Ok, I'll bite. What did you do to make youtube not work?
| bee_rider wrote:
| No idea, iOS + Safari + Firefox Focus + the built-in
| Apple blockers. The video seemed to randomly freeze when
| not in full screen, but it would exit full screen when I
| tried to hop around in the video. I bet there's an easy
| fix but I'm not a big video guy anyway.
| cpursley wrote:
| Have you read The Starship and The Canoe? Interesting book
| to goes into a good bit of detail about hunting craft (made
| from animal skin). Book said that they practiced 10
| different was to turn a flipped one back over.
| Rendello wrote:
| I haven't, but I've read "Birchbark Canoe" by David
| Gidmark. He's written some technical canoe-making books,
| but this one was the story about how he came to live in
| Northern Quebec amongst the Algonquin and learned how to
| make birch bark canoes from William Commanda, with whom
| he had a fairly turbulent relationship. I saw it in a big
| library one day and uncharacteristically actually managed
| to read the whole thing, it was very good!
| stronglikedan wrote:
| Sit ins are definitely easy to flip, but sit on tops aren't.
| Especially thin ones. They probably went for the thin, fast
| one instead of the wide, slow one while being naive to the
| implications.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| kayaks are muchj tipier than canoes but shouldn't be flipping
| if you're just sitting in them, unless these are highly
| specialized racing kayaks, which are tougher to navigate.
| bee_rider wrote:
| Interesting! I never felt like I was going to flip a sit-in
| kayak, but I don't even remember the first time I went in
| one really, it is a fuzzy early childhood memory.
|
| Canoes, I've been in canoes that are destined to flip
| whether I want them to or not (although they were
| overloaded, or may have had some traitors aboard).
| eszed wrote:
| That's funny, because I grew up canoeing and have never
| on my own flipped one - other people in the boat doing
| dumb stuff, of course, or trying something silly in white
| water (maybe that counts as "on my own"?), sure - but I
| feel totally stable and comfortable in a canoe. Kayaks,
| though? Man, they're trying bite me! I've never felt like
| even the most stable beginner-friendly of kayaks wasn't
| trying to throw me off it.
|
| I think the difference is stroke technique? I'm sure I'm
| instinctively trying to paddle a kayak like I would a
| canoe, and they don't like that. If I had more
| opportunity I'd get someone to teach me proper kayak
| stroke shapes, and then they'd probably feel more
| friendly.
| ecocentrik wrote:
| People can be easily overwhelmed by simple challenges. At some
| point everyone experiences this and we learn to overcome bigger
| challenges through life.
|
| Another point that might apply is that OP probably has a high
| center of gravity which can make kayaking really challenging.
| They should probably clarify this.
| IceDane wrote:
| Yeah, maybe the original message sort of got lost along the
| way. I think there is still some truth in the post when applied
| to the title.
|
| I think one of the most important things I ever learned is that
| hard things take time. There is an obvious relationship between
| the effort required and the size of the undertaking, but also
| the worthiness of the effort. In other words: rarely, if ever,
| can you build great things in a short amount of time or with
| little effort.
|
| And that's where this post makes sense: to build something
| great or to solve something hard, you have to show up every day
| and chip away at the problem, piece by piece. The progress will
| be slow and nearly invisible to you as you experience it, and
| is usually only clear in hindsight after a year or two (or
| more), when you can look back and see all that's changed --
| hopefully for the better -- since you started.
| mrec wrote:
| I think it's more than just "hard things take time". The key
| sentence for me is this one:
|
| > _Kayaking taught me to be okay with repeatedly looking dumb
| in public._
|
| I had the same thing when I first started running, in my
| early 50s. I'm sure I looked absolutely ridiculous. (I'm
| fairly sure I still do, I just stopped caring.) When I first
| started I would go out around 6am, partly because it was
| cooler but mostly so I wouldn't be seen. I've chatted to
| other runners who were the same, even keeping it secret from
| their family.
|
| Getting over that has been a very positive change, and a
| generally-applicable one. I've just started blogging
| publicly, which would historically have triggered the same
| kind of looking-like-an-idiot phobias.
|
| There was a post (maybe saw it here, maybe on Reddit) about
| sucking in public being a kind of moat for all sorts of
| interesting things. Crossing it gets you to places you
| otherwise couldn't go.
| scair wrote:
| https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/the-moat-of-low-
| status-68...
| mrec wrote:
| Yes, that was the one, thanks.
| silvestrov wrote:
| I think the real message is:
|
| _to be okay with repeatedly looking dumb in public_
|
| It is the same with going to the gym for the first time.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| It does feel a little more about psychological courage and grit
| than doing hard things.
| atoav wrote:
| The thing is a lot of what looks like a natural talent from the
| outside is also just learning on the inside. I won my provinces
| swimming competition without ever having swum in a competition
| before against swimmers who were all in a club. Reason: I grew
| up near a lake and was there every day during my whole
| childhood.
|
| The thing is that people with "talent" are often just people
| who did what you're trying to do _for fun_ their whole lifes.
| So talent then is just code for: "had a natural preference for
| doing it and both the means and time to do it".
| ge96 wrote:
| > immersive calibration of self to environment
|
| I felt this when I had to ride a bike to a job 3 hrs a day. It
| was nice biking through some street covered in trees being in the
| moment.
|
| I also went through a lot of audio books
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| This part stood out to me too.
|
| I got into spearfishing years ago, and I knew I wanted to see
| under water and eat fish, but wasn't really prepared for how
| hard it is and how common it is not to eat fish.
|
| Like the author, despite numerous failures, bad choices, and
| sometimes suffering very cold British Columbia ocean
| temperatures, I kept showing up. My dives went from 7 or 8
| metres to 10, to 15, to 20, and sometimes deeper. My breath
| hold went from a panicked 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
|
| Initially when I saw a legal fish I'd take it every chance I
| got, because I could be certain I wouldn't find another. These
| days when I get in the water, due to that sort of immersive
| calibration, I find a lot more fish. Ironically, I don't shoot
| any of them despite being so much more capable of it now.
|
| The ocean is such a complex, powerful, and simultaneously
| soothing yet deeply engaging environment. It gets incredibly
| cold, and it works with such incredible force that you
| constantly have to operate on its terms rather than your own.
| The qualia of the medium and your surroundings is so rich, it
| almost feels like a part of you. The same as a tool in your
| hand becomes an extension of you, the ocean becomes one as
| well, yet completely out of your control. It's really
| beautiful.
|
| Kayaking is similar in how you're largely at the whim of this
| incredible body of water. Your success depends so much on how
| you read it, understand it, and respond to it accordingly.
|
| I think humans are meant to be deeply engaged in environments
| like this. The easier we make it, the less we need to care
| about our environments (such as with this 21deg, still, quiet
| room I'm in), the less engaged and stimulated we are, then the
| less we're challenged to adapt and endure in ways we probably
| should.
| ge96 wrote:
| > spearfishing
|
| I like watching this guy's videos
| https://youtu.be/4VoTY8Ae4CE?si=8h7t-SKzV39UzWfm&t=283 from
| Japan
|
| Funny last time I swam in the ocean it is nasty, so salty the
| taste
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| Haha, it's incredibly salty, yeah. I kind of like it. After
| 4 or 5 hours in it, it's often all through your nose and
| throat, too. If I've been away from it for a while it can
| seem kind of harsh, but it grows on me again pretty
| quickly.
| drellybochelly wrote:
| Nice article, reminds me of boss fights in difficult games. You
| incrementally improve until almost suddenly, you're able to
| overwhelm the boss.
| jschveibinz wrote:
| This is a nice short piece of writing.
|
| The author sets the stage: uncoordinated and unathletic. Then
| they introduced their challenge: kayaking (or similar) which for
| them was a hard thing. Then they described the process: practice
| and improvement over a long period of time. And they closed with
| a personal success and take-away: it's worth the effort because
| of the experience regardless of the scale of the outcome.
|
| Nice.
| JohnMakin wrote:
| It must be my body type or something but I've often heard people
| talk about tipping over in kayaks and whenever I am in one it
| feels actually impossible to me. Is it really that easy to tip
| over? I don't feel I need to "balance" at all.
| atoav wrote:
| Depends on the waters you're moving in I guess?
| TickleSteve wrote:
| K1 (racing) kayaks are unstable and very narrow, most other
| types are fairly stable tho.
| beezlebroxxxxxx wrote:
| It looks like he was using a very long and rather narrow kayak.
| Those are easier to tip. I once used a friend's friend's sprint
| kayak. I've never tipped a kayak, but it was very easy to tip
| the sprint kayak. Any waves and that thing was almost unusable.
|
| Most recreational kayaks are, like you suggest, almost idiot
| proof and can only be tipped if you're really trying.
| aynyc wrote:
| The author must be talking about Sprint Kayak, which is
| incredibly unstable, must be in flat/calm water. Commercial
| paddling kayaks are incredibly stable, you have to try really,
| really hard to flip.
| dr-fumanchu wrote:
| great article. short and precise.
| kenjackson wrote:
| There are things we can do that are externally valuable, and
| often that work is hard, but not necessarily so.
|
| There is also stuff that is hard, but really has no value to
| anyone else in the world. I've found I do get enjoyment just in
| doing things that are hard, and often serve no purpose. For
| example, I learned how to solve the Rubik's Cube one day. Another
| time I learned to juggle. I learned to play the piano (OK, not
| really, I learned enough to learn like five pretty easy songs).
|
| There is something that makes it more enjoyable to do something
| hard (for me) where if I accomplish it or not has no bearing on
| the world (even amongst my small circle -- except now they have
| to watch me solve the Cube in five minutes).
|
| There is one challenge I will take on next -- to start a
| paragraph without the word "There".
| bicx wrote:
| I'm 38 years old and other than a couple years of moderate
| weightlifting with friends in my early 20s, I have never
| regularly exercised.
|
| This year, I was able to change that. Funny enough, I read "Shoe
| Dog" for the business story, but finished the book with an
| interest in running. I think it was just the enthusiasm and
| lifestyle of running that was pervasive throughout the book.
| However, I've attempted to get into running before, and it only
| lasted a couple weeks.
|
| This time, I tried again, but as an old-ass man, my motivations
| have changed. I just want consistency. I don't have a vision of
| winning any races, doing 20-mile trail runs, or other big
| ambitions. I just want to not die of a heart attack when I'm 45.
| I want to be in generally decent shape.
|
| Laugh if you want, but as a complete novice, ChatGPT set me up
| with some cushy running shoes (Brooks Glycerins) and a basic
| goal: run for 30 minutes and try to keep my heart rate between
| 130 and 160bpm. This is more of maintaining a metric rather than
| trying to hit a lofty goal. From day one, you can achieve this
| success metric. It means your getting some moderate cardio. I
| bought a chest-strap heart rate monitor and linked it to a free
| app (Heart Graph) on my phone.
|
| I'm now 8 weeks in, and I'm dedicated to the habit more than any
| goal. I feel a lot better, and by avoiding over-exertion and
| frustration from too lofty of a goal, I'm able to stay consistent
| without feeling miserable. I'm able to enjoy the "runner's high"
| without the cramps and misery that I endured in past attempts.
| Aurornis wrote:
| This is the boring truth for health and fitness: It's very easy
| to be top quintile in health and fitness by putting in very
| little effort. The only requirement is that you do it mostly
| consistently for a lot of years.
|
| The people cycling between fad diets or doing bouts of extreme
| Crossift every several years until they get injured or lose
| motivation have a much harder time with health and fitness,
| despite putting a lot more pain and effort in during their
| bursts of activity.
|
| One of my high school friends was always a little overweight
| and out of shape. Later he thinned out and got into decent
| shape. Everyone asked him what his secret was, but most people
| were disappointed with his answer: He said he stopped buying
| junk food and drink when he went grocery shopping and he
| started walking a little bit every day.
|
| Everyone assumed he was on some intense diet or getting sweaty
| at the gym 4X per week. Instead, he was just consistent with
| good but low effort choices.
|
| EDIT: This was pre-Ozempic. I'm sure today everyone would
| assume GLP-1 drugs.
| GeekyBear wrote:
| A small amount of exercise daily, along with giving up
| sweetened drinks was successful for me (and for my friends
| who asked how I lost weight and kept it off).
|
| In my opinion, how consistently you exercise is more
| important than how much you exercise, as you will naturally
| increase your endurance over time.
|
| Learning to cook your own food from scratch is also an
| effective way to get excess sugar out of your diet.
| elcritch wrote:
| Even minimal exercise helps cut my worse cravings. It's
| surprising how much impact it has.
|
| Also cooking food from scratch is very helpful. Yet somehow
| i always end up going eh I'll just eat out today.
| whatever1 wrote:
| I would say that portioning is super important as well. It is
| very easy if you don't have calibrated brain to binge eat
| huge quantities of food while distracted.
|
| Example you have an extra large bag of chips and you watch a
| show, likely you will finish before realizing. But if you
| just put in front of you a small plate of chips, you will
| likely not stand up to refill it while watching your show.
|
| Add a bit of friction to eating more food. Brains are
| remarkably lazy.
| prerok wrote:
| Doesn't work for me. What does work is going to a store
| with a full stomach, and never buying junk in the first
| place.
| scottiebarnes wrote:
| Heart rate training is key for a smoother onboarding. Most
| beginners (myself included) simply try to do a pace that they
| simply can't sustain, think running is too hard, and then quit.
| Building that aerobic base is something I wish I understood far
| sooner.
| VBprogrammer wrote:
| In the UK there is a program called couch to 5km. It's
| possible for anyone to follow and get to running for 30
| minutes. It mostly emphasises running at a sustainable pace -
| even if that is just above walking.
| threetonesun wrote:
| It was popular here in the US too, and I agree it's a great
| program.
| cameldrv wrote:
| This was exactly my experience years ago. I tried and failed
| to make a running habit several times until I got a heart
| monitor. When I finally did, I figured out that the pace I
| thought was what I "should" be running at was actually
| putting my heart at 185-190 and I was just getting wiped out
| after a mile or so.
|
| Anyhow I just slowed down to keep my heart more like 140-160
| and at the beginning I would even run three minutes and walk
| one, but I managed to get up to half marathon distance.
|
| These days I don't go all that far but I do about 3-4 miles 3
| times a week. I don't go very fast either but I feel
| healthier mentally and physically when I'm consistent.
|
| Honestly it's not clear to me that trying to go really far or
| fast is even all that healthy. It can actually lead to heart
| damage and it's hard on your joints. Doing something more
| moderate seems like the sweet spot.
| multjoy wrote:
| It does not lead to heart damage and it won't knacker your
| joints.
|
| It will suck all the time you are doing it, but you
| physically cannot damage your heart from over exertion.
| cameldrv wrote:
| There's significant evidence that it can: https://press.r
| sna.org/timssnet/media/pressreleases/14_pr_ta...
|
| If you don't think running can mess up your knees
| honestly all I can say is that obviously you don't know
| any serious runners.
| bityard wrote:
| What heart rate monitor did you get and would you recommend
| it?
| vanviegen wrote:
| I think nowadays just about any smartwatch should be
| fine?
| cameldrv wrote:
| That was a long time ago and it was a Polar watch with a
| chest strap. These days I use a Garmin watch, but you
| could just as well use a Fitbit or an Apple Watch or a
| heart rate strap and your regular phone. Honestly I don't
| even look at my watch during a run very much anymore,
| because I know what various heart rates feel like. The
| biggest thing for me was to realize that I was just
| trying to go too fast, and the HRM helped me with that.
| bob1029 wrote:
| It's amazing how adaptive the cardiovascular system can be
| when you focus on the right things and keep it very
| consistent.
|
| I went from having a resting heart rate of 70-80bpm to the
| upper 30s with a rowing regimen. The positive effect this has
| on moment-to-moment existence is really hard to overstate.
| wonger_ wrote:
| Wow, I've never heard of a resting heart rate below 40bpm.
|
| Can you describe some of the effects on your moment-to-
| moment existence? Do you never run out of breath? Is it
| easier to "get up and go"? Any mental differences? Appetite
| & metabolism?
| vakde wrote:
| Sounds amazing. Please do share details of how you did it?
| maccard wrote:
| That's why most beginner programs state "you should be able
| to have a conversation" as the pace marker. You don't need a
| watch or a fitness monitor - just to be able to say a
| sentence or two
| hammock wrote:
| No laughing. Heart rate training is the best way to build
| endurance
| moomoo11 wrote:
| Awesome. I agree with the habit building. My knees are shot so
| I don't run, but I try to walk for 90 minutes a day. I look
| forward to this every day.
|
| I normally start to wind down around 6pm, so around 8pm I close
| my computer and go for a walk. Come home and sleep.
| cpursley wrote:
| Biking (mountain) is my groove. Worth a try if you have some
| tracks as it does not put pressure on your knees like
| running.
| moomoo11 wrote:
| Used to LOVE mtb.
|
| Unfortunately my knees are busted and I don't have full
| range of motion on my right knee. And I've broken every toe
| lol.
| orochimaaru wrote:
| GSP's trainer Firas Zahabi prescribes to this. I remember his
| mentioning this in a Rogan podcast. His philosophy to training
| is minimal to 0 pain/soreness.
|
| Instead of doing pull ups till you drop start with 1 and do it
| daily. I started running after a long time. I'm 49. I work out
| with weights but needed mild cardio. I started with 0.25 m run
| / 0.25 m walk cadence. I can easily do that for 5-6 miles and
| keep my heart rate below 165.
|
| Bottom line is - take it easy. The goal is to burn calories,
| stay mobile and not get injured or sore.
| vhcr wrote:
| A 25cm run / walk sounds way too short.
| orochimaaru wrote:
| The m is miles, not meters.
| 90ne1 wrote:
| This realization was what finally allowed me to stop bouncing
| off exercise. The "no pain no gain" mindset of exercise was
| baked in and the result was years of smattering short burst
| of extreme exersion (1-2 weeks of running until my lungs
| hurt) between months of inactivity because being
| uncomfortable sucks and motivation is fleeting.
|
| This time I started slow and consistent - run/walk three
| times per week without pushing myself until I was wheezing
| and hurting. Over time I got better and eventually I could
| just run for a while without feeling out of breath or
| painful.
|
| At some point I actually started to enjoy it. Two years
| later, running is one of my main hobbies and I do it
| basically every day. I'll be running my second marathon in
| October.
| kuzmanov wrote:
| ChatGPT and Claude are perfectly acceptable for this. I've used
| them along side my training plans in Runna as well as just
| getting some baseline for my progress in Golf.
| wonderwonder wrote:
| I worked out half seriously for years and then fell off the
| first 10 years of having kids. I just couldn't figure out how
| to balance it and being a dad. About 3 years ago I got back
| into it.
|
| I was 245lbs at 6'1. Big frame but fat. My gym was near a
| college so just packed with people in their prime. I was able
| to get back to benching 315lb in the first year back. Set a
| goal of 405lbs and just been trudging on day by day for ~2
| years. Hit it last month at 46 years old and 211lbs.
|
| Just takes time.
|
| In most gyms people start watching when someone unracks 315lb.
| I tried and failed at 405 4 times over 3 months before I got
| it. There is something odd feeling about failure in such a
| public setting. I can only imagine how a professional athlete
| feels and soldiers on.
|
| For honesty, im also on steroids ;)
| high_na_euv wrote:
| Effort matters
| agcat wrote:
| I am planning to resume Judo, i only learnt it as a kid and now
| planning to start again. I never kind of was the best but it
| helped me build some life skills around focus, being in tough
| scenarios. So yes the point of doing hard things is not about
| winning only
| nottorp wrote:
| > I never kind of was the best
|
| Who cares? You only need to be slightly better than you
| yourself were last week.
|
| Not everything has to be done for competitive purposes. Or the
| one person you are really competing with is just yourself.
| ferguess_k wrote:
| Talking about kayaking, I as a beginner (but would love to do
| some serious sea kayaking if allowed) would love to hear some
| advices:
|
| I sometimes hope there are kayaks with deeper hulls so my legs
| can rest more easily. They can numb easily after just 5 mins of
| padding and I gave it up a long time ago after a few trials. I
| know there are sit-on kayaks but I think they are mostly for
| fishing.
| richwater wrote:
| As a tall individual who enjoys kayaking, you're going to spend
| a lot more money and research to find good kayaks. Depending on
| your location in the country you may not even be able to find a
| retailer near you with them in stock.
|
| With that said, this is probably going to be the most available
| and comfortable kayak for most tall people. For me as a 6'4"
| 220 (mostly fat, little thigh muscle) I've used it and it's
| good.
|
| https://wildernesssystems.confluenceoutdoor.com/en-us/produc...
| ferguess_k wrote:
| Thanks. I'm actually quite short (160cm) so I think most of
| the numbness came from some other reasons.
| dutchblacksmith wrote:
| Nice, I starter rowing at 50. Same feeling on the water.
| dashmeet wrote:
| > But I think there's a quiet dignity in the almost [success]
| stories too.
|
| The last line hit hard. Need to remind myself of this sometimes
| patrickhogan1 wrote:
| I completely agree, so many people miss out on great experiences
| simply because they're afraid of looking dumb.
|
| One big advantage many athletes had growing up was a parent who
| taught them a skill [basketball, soccer, biking] early, someone
| they felt safe failing in front of.
|
| That's one of the things I find so cool about learning with AI,
| you get to try, mess up, and improve without judgment.
| bloomca wrote:
| > I find so cool about learning with AI, you get to try, mess
| up, and improve without judgment
|
| I agree. There is no judgement in going very deep in as simple
| concepts as you need, whereas with real people you'd feel like
| you are wasting their time and that you should know that
| already, or at least find out on your own.
| Animats wrote:
| The extreme version of that: "Embrace the Suck".[1] By a Navy
| SEAL with a masochistic streak. SEALs are selected for people who
| will keep going while suffering, but this guy is into the
| suffering as an end in itself.
|
| The industrial version: "In Praise of Hard Industries".[2]
|
| [1] https://www.amazon.com/Embrace-Suck-Navy-SEAL-
| Extraordinary/...
|
| [2] https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Hard-Industries-
| Manufacturing-...
| TrackerFF wrote:
| Having tried SOF selection myself (once, didn't get selected /
| quit before it was over), I can say that the selections are
| almost 100% designed to weed out people on their willpower, not
| physical strength. The people that aren't cut out physically,
| tend to be weeded out on the very first day.
|
| And even if you get past the immediate pain stage, sooner or
| later you'll ask yourself "is this what I really want to do the
| next [N] years?".
| stdbrouw wrote:
| I did a plastering course last winter and spring, and it reminded
| me about how, when you're young and in high school or college,
| you are continually confronted with not knowing things and not
| being able to do things that you would very much love to be able
| to do, and sometimes having to spend weeks or months without
| feeling much advancement before you suddenly "get it"... which is
| a kind of patience and stubbornness you rarely need once
| gainfully employed. It took months before I finished a wall that
| looked half decent, but then another month went by and suddenly
| everything had a mirror smooth finish. Your hands and arms and
| eyes notice things they didn't notice before. It reminded me that
| if you are willing to put in the hours, humans can do pretty
| amazing shit, and that you should never stop learning.
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