I recently received an email from a customer saying that a product was not as easy to do as they expected.
This made me think about people’s different definition of what is ‘easy’.
Sitting at a computer watching for movement on a graph is far easier than having to carry a ton of bricks up scaffolding… physically that is.
Our techy guy, Andi, used to work as a carpenter both on building sites and in workshops and during that time he would have to carry a lot of heavy tools, lift and carry a lot of heavy materials such as fire doors, and he spent a lot of his time working on his knees or squeezed into incredibly small tight spaces.
What he does now is far easier than the work he did while working as a carpenter.
There is no constant noise from loud machinery to have to tolerate and he doesn’t have to breathe in harmful dust or vapours either.
The work he does now is far easier in comparison.
It always baffles him when people say that they couldn’t do what he does as it is ‘too hard’.
To him… it is the easiest thing to do.
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Mentally, writing might be slightly more difficult than carrying bricks because there is little thinking required with ‘carrying’, but ‘thinking’ isn’t actually ‘hard’ work.
People perceive something ‘new’ as ‘hard work’ and they allow this to cloud their judgment.
When something is ‘easy’, it is usually because it has been mastered by an individual.
When we are doing something new, it is completely alien to us and due to the fact that we have not spend much time doing it… it appears hard.
And that’s completely normal.
If you drive a car, think about how easy it is now and compare that to when you were young and first learning… it was quite hard, wasn’t it?
It was hard because you were not used to pressing on peddles or changing gears. It was all unnatural, but now after many years of driving it is second nature to you.
When you jump into your car, there is no thinking about what you need to do, you just ‘do’. You start the engine, pull off and drive away at speed.
That comes with practice and from constantly doing something over and over again.
You get better the more you do and when you get better at something, it becomes ‘easy’.
That is something that people need to remember… ‘easy’ is very often a result of constantly ‘doing’ something.
However…
That doesn’t mean that everything is hard though. Like I said earlier, some jobs are easy when compared to others.
Writing is one of the easiest to do as you only have to tap keys on a keyboard.
You can sit with your feet up and write words.
What’s more important than the ease of writing is that there are people who will pay you to read what you write… and you can earn tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of pounds publishing what you write online as you will see in this video here:
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Kind regards.
John Harrison.
PS… People are flocking to Substack to read newsletters because unlike websites, they are not drenched in advertising. The pages are clean, fast to load and easy to read… now is the time to check it out.
Here’s that link again: