Ah found the right question for what I’m actually drilling for.
What was the top example in your life when you choose inconvenience over convenience when you didn’t have to?
How did it turn out?
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I almost always put in more effort into writing than necessary - eg in doing cookie cutter blogposts for SEO purposes for work. Made me feel like some sort of uncontrollable dumbass for a long time, but eventually it paid off via People Who Get It
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It is when I do it for example when nobody asked me to + I end up going home late, annoying my wife, missing deadlines, etc
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Hmm that seems like consequences?
What was the convenient alternative when you made such decisions? Quit early? Abandon the writing? Phoning it in instead?
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Yeah scope things reasonably + ship it when it’s good enough, like normal people do 😂 I overwork things, cast my net too wide, try to do too much and end up spread too thin midway. Gotten somewhat better at this but I still overdo it
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Or maybe you choose this kind of inconvenience over the bigger inconvenience of not living up to your perfectionist unachievable standards? I know it's very often true for me.
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Yea I mean in a sense ultimately every choice is made within a context; so we can seemingly always frame some choice as avoiding (or attempting to avoid) some worse outcome
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Not necessarily
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The galaxy brain version of this question would be “after adjusting for your foresight into consequences”
Choosing inconvenience doesn’t count if you do it to avoid a greater long-term net inconvenience. Ie it has to be choosing higher NPV of path inconvenience for “growth”. twitter.com/vgr/status/113…
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