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What does it mean?
A challenge has ceased to be one over a short period.
In plain terms
What was hard yesterday is no longer hard today.
What can you take from it?
Challenges can lose their weight quickly as you adapt.

Where it applies

  • facing new tasks
  • learning curves
  • burnout

Putting it to work

  • tracking progress
  • writing arcs
  • goal setting

Questions to consider

  • Why does a challenge stop being a challenge?
  • When does adaptation become giving up?

Another view

The fragment is too brief to determine the context of the change.

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