The message is clear: Your deficits define you and you should follow a path in life that is devoted to minimizing them. Sometimes—in fact, most of the time—doing what’s easy will be the most rewarding option. Rather than dismissing what’s easy, we should pay attention to it. Do the Easy ThingWhen Bruce Lee said, “Be water, my friend,” he was pointing to something fundamental about human potential. We can do extraordinary things—if we allow ourselves to do easy things.