Too many people refuse to act unless they believe something is meaningful. If you have a bit of insight, you won't insist on meaning before doing anything.
The biggest trap for ordinary people is that they lack this kind of insight.
Some horses figure it out just by watching another horse get ridden hard.
In the same way, some people insist on stepping into every pit themselves. But others? They take the pits others have fallen into and log them into their own mental database, patching up their own systems along the way.
The pitfalls that trip up the rest of the world can all become their experience.
The ability to lie is becoming increasingly refined, and this is inevitably the direction of human evolution.
The more steps involved, the lower the probability of success—and one mistake and you're back to square one, since each intermediate step reduces your chances.
Professionalism is really about this: what can you do better than anyone else?