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> If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason thi
by greenleafjacob 11y ago
> If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it. - Paul Graham [1]
[1]: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
- rpkhrpksq 11y agoYou've grossly misunderstood the meaning of that quote if you think it is applicable in this context. Your post is ironically self-unaware. You talk about working harder, but you're so lazy that your post consisted solely of a poorly selected appeal to authority that wasn't augmented by a single original thought.