What Are You Taking For Granted?: On Brevity: And A Ring Drill For A Better Rack

I get lost checking boxes and adding more action items to the list.

The sun is still hours away, and we’re hardly through the warm-up.

“What are you taking for granted?” she says with such force and vicious conviction that I lose count.

“I think that’s ten reps,” I say. And the question hangs in the air like the one Tyler Durden asks before crashing the car in Fight Club.

“What would you wish you’d done before you died?”

Humans take things for granted to save computing space. It’s unconscious and even necessary.

When I go to bed, for instance, I take it for granted my car will be there in the morning, my heat will keep me warm all night, and the sun will rise.

But that’s the easy stuff. The low-hanging fruit that muddies the water if we think too hard about all the things.