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#516 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 16 Surprising Psychology Truths

Modern Wisdom

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Anxiety Cost

If you can't decide between two equal choices, take the path that's more difficult or painful in the short term. You're trying to start to front load against that hyperbolic discounting. It's reverse procrastination. If I try and find something that seems overly difficult short term, that probably will maybe end up being about equal to what it should be rationally over the long term.

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