That's the efficiency trap. We are wired — especially us men — to measure our worth by output. By speed. By results.

My daily briefings — which I send to myself every morning before the world's agenda takes over — almost always begin with scripture. And the verse I return to more than any other is not Romans 5. It is 2 Corinthians 12:9:

If you want a comfortable, warm-and-fuzzy book that tells you to "follow your heart" and wait for your dream career to drop out of the sky, do yourself a favor and pass on Cal Newport’s So Good They Can't Ignore You.