Every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it because the challenges faced by someone in the arena are often invisible to those in the crowd. - Morgan Housel

Having a gap between what you can technically endure versus what’s emotionally possible is an overlooked version of room for error.

Whenever we are surprised by something, even if we admit that we made a mistake, we say, ‘Oh I’ll never make that mistake again.’ But, in fact, what you should learn when you make a mistake because you did not anticipate something is that the world is difficult to anticipate. That’s the correct lesson to learn from surprises: that the world is surprising. The correct lesson to learn from surprises is that the world is surprising.

True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one’s activities for peace of mind.” I like that.