HOW WE KILL "LIFE PRODUCTIVITY"
AND MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT
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"Life is difficult" is the first sentence of M. Scott Peck's super selling book The Road Less Traveled.
But, then, he adds some clarifying remarks of how we make life seem difficult. "Once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." Basically, if we accept reality as it is and not spend our energy "efforting against reality" (unproductively resisting it), we cease making life difficult - and we merely proceed on to what is the next thing to do.
SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW WE MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT
"Logistical"
We walk a zig-zag path, when the quickest way to a payoff is a straight line.
We stop learning too soon, so our life skills and other capabilities are less, so things are
not done as well - and more mistakes are made, needlessly. (Life is easier with
great skills!)
We spend lots of time dealing with symptoms, when we could simply cure the cause of
the problem and the resultant symptoms. (Duh!)
We waste time in low payoff or negative payoff activities.
We waste lots of time in ineffective maintenance, even meal making.
Huge amount of time in distractions that have no value or some harm and/or are
the wrong strategy.
We learn erratically, inefficiently and make it hard, when it need not be.
stress/anxiety - and try to take "ways around" and/or obliviousness routes - that
are costing us dearly - and which compound the negative substantially.
We use poorly designed or nonsoundly based methods to ineffectively try to get what
we want (especially non-workable spirituality stuff, diets, and "magic" plus systems
we use daily over and over)
Those are "huge" in total time and effort spent unproductively. But the biggest cause of life being difficult is the barriers and frictions we allow to exist. We must, first, or soon at least, eliminate those, to the extent you're willing to work on them. With 20% of the time and effort, we can eliminate 80% of them - and then choose how much further we wish to go.
The unnecessary barriers and frictions we allow to stay in our lives:
Resisting "reality" (See the chapter on that.)
Falling short of unrealistic expectations (and considering ourselves weak for "being
actually "no fault" in "reality".)
Heeding false beliefs about "threats" and dangers (this takes some time to straighten out
but it is very, very productive, very, very freeing - and totally doable). This is
hugely stressful, incurring a physical cost and our brain not working as well, which
Believing we have to be dependent on others, and not being able to adequately control
them. (And the waste and agony of trying to control others!) See Control - Its
