The Best Feeling in the World Is When a Hard Things Starts to Feel Easy

There’s an ‘easy’ epidemic right now.

Everyone wants things to be easy. Dopamine-fuelled social media makes everything sound so damn simple. It’s purposely designed that way so you’ll buy, buy, buy.

But easy is a nightmare.

I don’t want anything to be easy. You shouldn’t either.

 
The huge downside of “Easy like Sunday morning”

At sound engineering school we had to build stereo systems from scratch.

To test what we’d built the teacher would give us a Lionel Richie CD with the song “Easy like Sunday Morning” on it. If we could get Lionel to sing the song using our speaker creation, we’d pass our exam.

The song stuck with me.

Sunday mornings are easy. There’s nothing to do. Kids are sleeping and your partner is chilled out. If only life could always be like this.

Advertising recreates this easy version of life to lure people into a bear trap. Then the clamp comes down and your leg metaphorically gets sliced off clean. Before you know it, you’re in consumer debt. Congrats.

Easy is a schmuck’s game.

The easy life games aren’t worth playing. What we want in life is to feel joy and happiness. This comes from setting goals and making progress on them.

 
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