Work, nutshell: "Principle Of Least Effort"

We design work to run from the real work.

From a decent article on work and consulting:

Over a century ago, the philosopher Guillaume Ferrero proposed that humans operate on the Principle of Least Effort: given several paths, we pick the easiest. More recently, Harvard psychologist Shawn Anchor suggested that the behavior we choose is the one that’s just 20 seconds easier to start.

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