"if you have to choose between two then pick the solution that seems harder" seems like terrible advice. Productivity comes from avoiding wasted effort, so doin

"if you have to choose between two then pick the solution that seems harder" seems like terrible advice. Productivity comes from avoiding wasted effort, so doing the harder thing would quite often make you less productive (https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/04/technical-skills-productive/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/04/technical-skills-pro... talks about avoiding wasted work). Different domains have different requirements, other comments suggest this is fine advice for sports. Perhaps the original was "do the solution that will teach you the most"? But even then, there are cases where learning is not a goal. "Do the thing you're most afraid of" has some caveats, presumably, like "where the actual worst case is not dying." Like, I'm afraid of being hit by a car if I run through a red light, so not planning on running red lights.