Motivation We want to adapt our environments Environments matter. To do our best work and live our best lives, we need spaces that let us each express our unique potential. A guitar maker sets up their workshop with their saws, hammers, chisels and files arranged just so. They can also build new tools as needed to achieve the best result—a wooden block as a support, or a pair of pliers sanded down into the right shape. Over the years, a home cook gradually assembles a combination of knives, cutting boards, and pots and pans, finding the ones that work best for them. They can install hooks on the ceiling and move shelves around to support their workflow—whether that’s cooking weekday dinners or hosting elaborate weekend cookouts. These are everyday situations. In the physical world, the act of crafting our environments comes naturally, because physical reality is malleable.…