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It never gets any harder, either

Why ‘doing your best’ is a bit of a mirage 📲

It never gets any harder, either
Remember ‘Snake’? You had to be quick for that, too | Photo by Vlad / Unsplash

The other day we looked at how the subjective experience of doing exercise can be identical, no matter one’s level of fitness: It never gets any easier.

And almost as soon as I’d written that one, life presented me with a totally different scenario that pointed to the same thing, but in a different way.

It was the settings on my daughter’s new phone.