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Phrase: The path of least resistance
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Are you an expert on how to live life? No? Me neither.
To simplify things, there are two ways to live: You can do things by going through the school of hard knocks, otherwise known as the hard way, or taking the path of least resistance which is the easy way.
Which way have you chosen?
Or, before you answer that question, did you make a conscious choice, or are you bumbling your way from one stage of life to the other making arbitrary choices, not knowing whether you’ve chosen the hard way or the path of least resistance?
It’s an essential question because life has no reverse, and there are no U-turns.
Make the wrong life decision, and you have the option of stopping and suddenly changing or merging into a different way, but there’s no going back.
People older than you will try to tell you what to do, but you should make your own choices.
Often the school of hard knocks is considered the wrong way to do things.
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That’s the path I chose, and because I did, the path of least resistance is, for me, the wrong way to go.
Why? Well, the hard way is learning through experience, and wow, I’ve had some fantastic experiences in my life.
I’ve driven across the Nullarbor in an old Ford Valiant, paid my way through nine years of university, survived a near-death medical emergency, lived overseas for 25 years and started my own business from scratch.
Before leaving home, my father asked me why I wanted to see the Rocky Mountains or Australia.
He said I could see it all on TV and save my money.
That’s the path of least resistance.
It may be easy, but it’s boring.
It’s not me.
Is it you?
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