The sushi chef has made rice ten thousand times. Each time, he notices something the previous time missed — the water temperature, the resting time, the pressure of his hands. Repetition, in the shokunin framework, is not monotony. It is refinement. Every repetition is an opportunity to notice something new in something familiar.

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