Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua. This is

episode 1,830. Today I'm going to read to you an excerpt from a newsletter that I

get called 6 at 6 from Billy Oppenheimer and this is talking about the

perception, the labor perception bias. The story goes Picasso, the famous

artist, was approached by a fan who asked if he could sketch something for her.

Picasso agreed and just in a few seconds he drew a simple sketch of a dove. The

fan was thrilled and asked how much he owed Picasso for the sketch. Picasso

replied, one million dollars. The fan was shocked and protested that the sketch

only had taken a few seconds to draw. Picasso responded, no madame, the sketch

took me a lifetime. Now whether the story is true or not it talks about a very

powerful principle, the labor perception bias and a lot of times when you're

really really good at something, you poured your heart and soul in hours and

hours and even years and in some cases decades into a certain task, you make

it look easy and it looks so easy that people on the outside might think that

you're just going through the motions or how could it possibly be that easy or

it was natural talent and people will begin to discount or completely not

agree with the fact that you spoke, you took many, many years and many hours of

deliberate practice to get where you are. As is the Picasso example, here he was

he was accused of only taking one second to draw the dove. Now objectively

it may have been one second but I love his answer. It took a lifetime. It took

years to be able to draw a dove like that in minimal time. And so the reason I

share this is because if you want that level of expertise, that level of ease,

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