It's interesting how much this relates to competitive strategy games like chess, kungfu, dota etc. If you watch a beginner he has not much to do, but he enjoys

It's interesting how much this relates to competitive strategy games like chess, kungfu, dota etc. If you watch a beginner he has not much to do, but he enjoys what happens seemingly randomly. Then if you watch a mediocre strategist you will see them hustle and hustle and hustle away, always feeling one step behind optimum. And then when you watch the experts, they simply refuse to do the 80% of the hustling where they know it has no value for their goals. Then they sit around calculating how an actual opportunity would look like, observing what their opponents are doing and when one of these opportunities comes around they are already prepared and therefore can take it in a relaxed manner. The thing is step 1 is easy, everybody can do it. But the value in the competitive environments like your working environment are almost zero. Good and bad things happen at random to you. And while you might have less stress in general, the bad things will hurt you badly. What we actually want is getting to step 3. But few people take the time after reaching step 2 to actually continue learning and optimizing. But that's the way to get to step 3. The reason people feel that way is because they "just" need to get to that one thing that is in front of them, "just" barely out of reach, not realizing that they don't get it because they are so exhausted. And the solution is really letting go. Accepting that you won't achieve the opportunities that you see directly in front of you, but rather work on improving yourself to become more capable to achieve anything. And then one needs to continue for quite some time in that state, slowly improving ones health, ones ability to observe oneself and others, recognizing big opportunities that are further away, and realizing which steps to take to reach them.