There's a word Japanese people say to each other
at the end of the day:
'Otsukaresama.'
It roughly means:
'You're tired. And that tiredness is honorable.'
Not 'good job.'
Not 'did you hit your numbers.'
Just: I see that today cost you something,
and that something mattered.
The rest of us measure people by output.
They built a word
that measures people by effort โ
and says it out loud, every single day.
Imagine being tired
and having someone tell you it counted.