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You make the hard things harder when you let yourself fall into a habit of avoiding them. So if you have a bit of foresight, the easiest thing to do is to make the hard things easy. There’s less uncertainty, your skill in dealing with it improves, your resentment for it fades, your craving for ease or salvation disappears. The more you encounter something, the less intimidating it gets. The biggest factor in getting something to go from hard to easy is normally exposure. Hard becomes easy, if you do it willingly while it’s still hard. What makes something hard is your emotional relationship to it, not what the thing actually is. Almost everything that’s easy for you now was at one time hard. That’s because of a wonderful law of reality: hard becomes easy.

Waking up knowing I have to hammer fifty stakes in doesn’t faze me anymore.

Now when it’s time to do some winter staking I have no resistance to it. But it’s usually not, and here’s why.īecause I didn’t go traveling during the off-season, I did more winter sledgehammering this winter than ever, and at some point I found myself volunteering to do the hammering rather than avoiding it. We tend to think of easy as if it’s categorically a better deal. If there’s a way we can do something easy instead, without triggering any apparent consequences, we take it by default. Impending hard parts preoccupy us, which creates a draining effect on the easy parts. Cleaning the pots under the stove elements. Performing a particular exercise in your workout. Most of us have regular appointments with little things that always feel hard, usually a certain necessary part of your job or your personal commitments. It’s hard to even wake up, knowing how many of these little battles have to be endured just to get to the next day (on a slow day we’ll put in about fifty.) How hard gets easy The whole process - working in bitter cold, and fighting such a hard physical battle for every stake - was always draining mentally, even when I was just thinking about having to do it the next day. The upside to swinging the sledge is that you stay warm. After working a few weeks with a particular partner, a person gets less nervous and it feels a whole lot safer. Being the hammerer is actually scarier than being the holder - I would rather get hit with a sledgehammer than hit someone. A miss could be disastrous for the wrist-bones of the holder, but the hammer needs to be swung hard, and we have to do this thousands of times. It takes several great, two-handed swings with a ten-pound sledgehammer to make any progress, which means someone else has to crouch down and hold the bar for the hammer guy. If you don’t hit it dead-centre, often the bar bounces right out. So we must always first pound in an iron bar to make a hole.Įven with a pointed iron bar it’s almost impossible to make a hole if you’ve never done it before. Wooden stakes shatter when you try to hammer them in. Worst of all for the surveyor, the ground is about as soft as a brick. But you wear layers, you keep moving, and you make sure to find a job for the extremities that tend to go numb first.

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If there’s a breeze and some of your skin is exposed, say between your glove and the cuff of your coat, it feels like it’s being cut with a knife. When you inhale, the inside of your nostrils freeze. Minus 35 is something everyone should experience at least once.

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Many of my workdays, another surveyor does the technical stuff and so I become essentially a manual laborer. The students are gone, so two or three surveyors team up to create overqualified super-crews of stake-holders and hammerers. In winter, the construction season is on an outbreath and the industry slows way down. I find the points while a student assistant does most of the hammering. Thousands of years ago, this was done using wooden stakes pounded into the ground at carefully measured-in points, and they have not yet found a better way. I read engineering drawings and mark exactly (to the inch) where all the new stuff belongs in the real world.

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It’s particularly relevant to me though, because my day job has me working with my hands, outside, all times of year.Ĭonstruction crews know how to build things - roads, pipes, hydrants, and buildings - but they couldn’t possibly build them in the right place without a professional surveyor staking them out. Our dramatic climate constitutes a large part of our modest civic pride. Humidity and wind chill stretch these extremes further. Average temperature is slightly lower than Moscow. In a typical year my city will see both 35 degrees Celsius and minus 35 (that’s 95 and -31 to Americans.) We have the greatest range of temperatures of any major city in the world. I live in a land of temperature extremes.