It’s always feels beneficial to talk about your current task as though it’s difficult.
That way if you succeed you get the glory of achieving something you talked up as difficult.
And if you don’t succeed you’ve already laid the path for your excuse. No one can blame you for falling short of something difficult.
(This is why sports teams always talk publicly about how great their opponents are. That way if they win, they beat a great team. If they lose, they lost to a great team.)
On the flip side…If you talk about your current task as though it’s easy…then if you succeed, there’s not a whole lot of glory for achieving something easy. And if you fail, now you look even worse because you failed at something easy. So people rarely talk about their job, projects, tasks, duties, or plans this way. There’s just not enough pay off for acting like and talking like ‘This is gonna be easy for me’.
The more valuable alternative is talking about your current task as, ‘This is my thing, I’ll take care of it’…and then just taking care of it. No crazy emotion. No talking it up or down. No excuses. No drama.
