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You're absolutely right. As I see it, the complacency you describe is the number one reason why many people in modern societies never emerge beyond being "aver
by dgallagher 17y ago
You're absolutely right. As I see it, the complacency you describe is the number one reason why many people in modern societies never emerge beyond being "average". They lose the drive to learn new things, challenge themselves, and continuously improve. Once becoming established it's very easy to sit back, relax, and coast along through life.
A motto I try to live by is this: If you have a choice between doing an easy thing and a hard thing, do the hard thing if you want to be great.
- imp 17y agoThat's a grahamism also (http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html#f9n http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html#f9n): "This is a good plan for life in general. 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."