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The Mountain

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  • Oct 30, 2022
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Shane Parrish
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Short-term easy is long-term hard. Short-term hard is long-term easy. I was reminded of this when one of my kids came home with a grade that wasn’t up to his standards. Rather than... Show More

Short-term easy is long-term hard. Short-term hard is long-term easy.

I was reminded of this when one of my kids came home with a grade that wasn’t up to his standards. Rather than look at the feedback and dive in, he said, “oh, I understand it now.”

I called his bluff. When I asked him to “explain it to me” because I didn’t understand it, he stalled. He didn’t understand. This lesson isn’t just for kids.

We’d rather do the easy thing than the hard thing. That’s natural and normal. I call this the mountain. You can climb it, or you can avoid it, but it’s not going away. There is always a mountain. There is always something in front of us that we know we should do, but it just seems so … hard.

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Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci · Oct 30, 2022
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"The easy path today makes a hard path tomorrow. The hard path today makes an easier path tomorrow." A Tiny Thought worth reading in the @farnamstreet newsletter
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