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If there are things about your life that are bothering you or things about the world that are bothering you, then you want to deconstruct them into solvable subproblems.
If you have a child, this is the sort of thing that you do naturally, right? Because you want to set your child a challenge that's sufficiently challenging to push them forward in their development.
So that makes it meaningful for the child that puts them in the zone of proximal development, which is where proper maturation takes place.
You want to make it challenging but also with a reasonable probability of success, and there's an art to that.
So you want to set yourself a task that's difficult, but not so difficult. You can't attain it.
And then what happens is that you step up improvement across time incrementally, and there's also a certain element of humility to it, right, which is, “Don't bite off more than you can chew.”
Don't set grandiose goals. Incremental improvement will get you a tremendous distance.
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