Sprezzatura

The Puumaja Crew would love to be able to exhibit sprezzatura, a for us hitherto unknown Italian word which originated in rennaisance author Baldassare Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier", presumably as a trait seen as virtuous and worth having.

Put simply, or put in some way or other, it is "a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it". So the embattled rail traveller in the UK tutting and sighing over delays, the beer drinker who announces that they're on their nth pint of the evenint,or the  ESL teacher who flusters into a lesson or comes out f-ing and b-linding or the blogger frantically tapping away, deleting, tapping away again then posting out of frustration. Then taking the post down...all these people DON'T have sprezzatura, if we understand the definition correctly.

Of course, this shouldn't be confused with laziness in our opinion; remember the swan, serene on the surface whilst the legs are going 19 to the dozen. But it seems a quality difficult to cultivate, even in Estonia. But a worthwhile one nonetheless.