Challenges are opportunities to learn and grow.

Growth is a lousy motivator in the middle of something. Nobody sitting in a launderette at midnight with a bin bag of somebody else's washing is thinking about personal development, and nobody should have to.

What happens is quieter and comes without permission.

Capacities get built by use, the way a hand gets calluses — not because the hand intended it, and not as compensation for the work.

So there's no obligation to extract anything today. Whatever this makes of you will have been made whether or not you were keeping notes.