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Doing hard things is tautologically good.
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Hard war over easy peace, then?

It's more like, good things happen to be harder while bad things are more often easy. So being able and eager to do hard things lets you actually choose (and then hopefully you choose the good stuff).


> Doing hard things is tautologically good.

Bahaha yeah overwork is virtue, sure


I didn't say anything about "overwork." No need to make assumptions (or just make things up).

Bullshit. Many things are hard because they shouldn't be done and systems have evolved to make the thing hard for good reason.

I see you’ve probably never spent time in a large, ossified bureaucracy.

There are plenty of things in the world that are hard only because they’ve been made difficult by people who either don’t want them done, don’t understand, or greatly benefit from their not being done, but would be a fantastic idea to do.

Such as get a new coffee maker for our office, but it would take two years, multiple committees, and an electrical study in order to do so. No i am not kidding


They said "many things", not "everything".

How so?



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