You’ve spent every last painstaking second of Gladwell’s proverbial 10,000 hours becoming a half way decent contract attorney when it hits you: most of that time was not working on contracts at all - it was wasted squinting at documents on a computer screen and playing mental games such as the old “what isn’t here that should be?” and everyone’s favorite “at least they brought me in at the last second when I could really make a difference”.