evidence: This is also having leadership implications where leaders are making life hard for staff by telling staff they just need to be disciplined about certain things without showing them there is an easier way to get results. [...] Getting up and exercising first thing, eating right, doing the hardest tasks first at work, or worse, locking ourselves away to do a whole day of hard tasks. Choosing to spend less time on social media when the algorithm has better ideas. Arrgh, eewww, life is too short for constantly trying to make disciplined choices. These are all just draining our cognitive energy way more than we need to [...] So maybe we can revise the quote slightly to being about a lazy person who loves achievement. But either way I think he’s onto something!