Most people don’t say work was good or bad. They say it was busy.

This episode explores why busyness feels safe, why it’s rewarded early in practice, and how constant motion can quietly replace judgment.

Rather than framing busyness as a personal failure, this conversation reframes it as a learned behavior — one that often leads people to focus on the wrong part of the work too early.

The episode introduces a simple but uncomfortable realization: being busy can prevent you from noticing that you don’t actually know where you’re going.

This isn’t a productivity episode. It’s a calibration.

We talk about:

• Why motion feels responsible even when it’s premature

• How premature execution creates rework and confusion later

• Why slowing down feels risky but is often where judgment forms

• The difference between moving and being oriented

Some of these ideas deserve entire episodes of their own. Today is about noticing the pattern — not fixing it.

Episode 06 continues the conversation by examining why more communication doesn’t solve the problem once alignment is missing.

Key Takaways:

• Busyness is often a response to uncertainty, not workload.

• Being busy can delay judgment by replacing orientation with motion.

• Early practice rewards availability and speed, not restraint.

• Focusing on the wrong part too early creates downstream friction and rework.

• Effective work often looks slower from the outside but compounds over time.

• Direction is a skill you practice, not something you’re handed.

• When you start moving before you’re aligned, communication is usually the next thing to break.