If you’re stuck up only with the easy, then…


You could be wasting your time.

A sure-fire test to know if the work you’re pursuing is worth your time or not lies in the fact that it has to be tough for you.

If certain work is putting stress on your mind, and you’re not able to do it easily, there’s a very high likelihood that it’s rewarding.

Easy things generally aren’t rewarding, and therefore they can be timewasters.

If something was difficult to you once upon a time and practising has rendered it easy, it’s a clear sign that you need to level up the toughness – else you won’t improve.

Keep pushing your limits, as they say.

If you’re in your easy area, in your comfort zone, no progress is going to take place.

If you want to be an athlete, try covering a mile in 4 minutes if you’re doing it in 6.

If you want to be a writer, try penning down 500 words in 10 minutes if you’re doing it in 20.

If we feel complacent with the labour we’re putting up, we’re not going to ever improve.

Lifting heavy weights, the ones that are slightly beyond your capacity, makes your muscles. No bodybuilder has ever got successful in having a sturdy body by lifting weights easy for him.

So is the case for other things as well.

In How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren said, “You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. you must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.”

If you want to get good at math, sort out the problems that are a little over your head.

Heading back to childish sums, the ones that are well within your capacity, isn’t going to burnish your mathematical skills – you would be fooling yourself.

If you want to up your game, play with people many times better than you. Playing with folks who you defeat easily isn’t going to make you any better.

Drag yourself to the edge of your limits and then again gather your strengths to push yourself ahead.

Easy is the opposite of improvement, success, joy.

Because ultimately, we’re not competing with the guys who kill time at those flashy cafes or who bury their heads behind those moronic videos.

The damn thing is that we’re required to overtake those audacious self-starters who’re squeezing out their very blood and soul to grab their object.

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