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Why the Grounded Difficulty Challenge Makes You Better at Hard Things

I have spent the better part of two decades working with people who are trying to get better at something. Musicians, programmers, athletes, managers, parents. The one thing they all share is a desire to improve without falling apart. What I have noticed is that the people who actually get better do not chase easy wins. They do not look for shortcuts. Instead, they embrace what I have come to call the grounded difficulty challenge . It is not a slogan. It is a way of descri