# Delegation > Delegation is participation through initiating and directing rather than performance; assistance is part of the action rather than loss of experience. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/delegation # Delegation In this exchange, delegation is framed as an initiated action carried out with assistance, rather than as the loss of an experience. The distinction depends on how the person defines participation in the work. > — Excitement Is And Organizing Principle (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/excitement-is-and-organizing-principle) ## Delegating as participation The reply locates participation in initiating and directing the action, not only in personally performing each physical step. Assistance remains part of the initiator's action: the person receiving the task is described as working with the initiator, as a helping hand is part of the equation. > — Excitement Is And Organizing Principle (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/excitement-is-and-organizing-principle) ## The definition behind the sense of loss The sense of missing out is treated as a consequence of the meaning assigned to delegation. Changing that definition is presented as making room for a distinction between work one needs to do alone and work one can do with assistance; the session says that distinction can reveal itself rather than be settled by assuming that all direct performance is necessary. > — Excitement Is And Organizing Principle (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/excitement-is-and-organizing-principle) ## Practical implications Within this teaching, someone who resists delegating because it seems like forfeiting an experience can examine whether the resistance comes from equating participation with doing every step alone. The proposed reframe is to recognize the initiator's role while allowing assistance where the experience does not need to be performed alone. > — Excitement Is And Organizing Principle (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/excitement-is-and-organizing-principle) > — Excitement Is And Organizing Principle (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/excitement-is-and-organizing-principle) ## Representative passages What makes you think you are not doing them by delegating? You are the one delegating, so you are still doing it. You could delegate the job to a drill; you are still doing it. The person you delegate to is working with you, part of the equation of your doing something with a helping hand.— Bashar, Change your definition of what it means to delegate and you will understand that you are not missing out on anything. The things you truly need to do by yourself will arrange themselves to show you which ones you can do alone and which ones you can do with assistance.— Bashar, ## Related - [Excitement](https://sassani.app/topic/excitement) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) - [Synchronicity](https://sassani.app/topic/synchronicity) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/delegation. The HTML page is the source of truth.