Once upon a time, a novice farmer indulged himself in motivational videos. He became familiar with ideas like the importance of “effort,” the “hustle culture,” and “work hard, play hard.” After binge-watching for days, he walked onto his farm, fired up and determined to make it a great success. He started by pulling up one of the crops as a way to make them grow faster. But this didn’t work. Then he began to water the plants twice as much, hoping to make them grow faster, but he drowned them instead. After trying to force his success, the farmer realized that no matter how much effort he put in, acting in opposition to nature is counterproductive. Despite humanity’s technological developments and will to progress, we’re still utterly dependent on nature. Human effort has its limitations and is always in conjunction with nature. We cannot grow a plant, for example, completely isolated from natural growth, even though we can influence and manipulate it.