Why Your Best Work Feels Like Your Easiest

I was showing her what came out of a clinical session she had dismissed. “I thought it was pretty boring,” she said. “And I wasn’t very helpful.” The analysis had surfaced several pieces of content, recurring patterns, and decisions she had been using without ever naming them. She had seen nothing unusual because nothing unusual had happened from her perspective. Decades had been spent developing the ability to make those decisions. Later, she said something else. “This is 35 years of...