The Joy From Doing...

For a couple of years in my (early) career I wrote computer programs. They worked pretty well and I loved writing them, but I was really slow, so my boss told me to just write the specifications, and he got an experienced programmer to write the actual programs. The guy was fast, and everything got done in a fraction of the time, but the process changed from something I really enjoyed into something that gave me no joy at all. It turned out it was the programming I loved - finding flow in the solving of problems as I wrote the code - rather than the end result of the program.

There might be a faster/better/more-efficient way to do that thing that we’re doing, but maybe the joy comes from the doing, not from the thing getting done…