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The Effortless State is about making the mundane and necessary more enjoyable. If you have to do it, you ought to make it fun. I grew up thinking the opposite, and so I think this chapter will be important for me to revisit. Hard work is not better than smart work. Taking the simplest path to a goal is not about cheating the system, it’s about keeping your sanity and peace.

This chapter was all about inversion: asking of a seemingly-difficult problem, “What if this were easy instead?” There’s a societal notion that “work” is only valid if it’s “hard work” but many formerly hard workers end up more successful by working less hard, working smart and simple. The most difficult path to solve a problem is not always the best, and shouldn’t be assumed as the best.