Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your 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 she owed Picasso for the sketch. Picasso replied, $1 million.

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, close quote.

Now, whether this 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've 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 would 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,

almost ease as it looks, it requires a lot of practice.

And so something might be very difficult for you right now, a certain technique, a certain style,

whatever you're trying to do.

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