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Anyway, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So over the weekend I found myself

backing the water, doing a little bit of surfing and it's something I've missed a lot over

the recent months. Not being able to necessarily go to the beach with everything shut down.

But I found myself in the water and a number of other people out there surfing and as I

sat out there I was watching different people and the different level of effort that was

going into surfing. If you've ever tried surfing you'll know that it's a fairly steep learning

curve. It doesn't really matter how long you've been doing it. I feel like it's just one

of those things that just takes a long time to learn and there are so many different things

I'm sure there are things in your life that you'll have tried and that just seem to take

a little bit longer to learn. And the thing that I really noticed as I was watching these

different surfers was that for some it seemed to come incredibly easily. There are no real

effort and it was a combination of their technique and their position in the water. All kinds

of different things. And then for others it felt like and looked like a real struggle

and I'm sure I was one of those. But as I looked at those it reminded me of this journey

that we all go on in learning a new skill. I feel like in the world of mindfulness, meditation,

training the mind so often we talk about this idea of effortlessness and not needing

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