How to be a serious person

If you have you repeatedly do a thing, learn how to do it properly. As Miyamoto Musashi would say, this understanding extends to everything: if you have to clean the bathroom floor once a week, cook scrambled eggs every day or do your taxes once a year, it’s worth taking the time to sit down and learn to do the thing properly, rather than just iterating on the first half-formed version of doing it that you stumbled upon.