Why Wishing For An Easy Life Is A MISTAKE - Why Should You Work Hard? Future IQ

6,389 views Wait, is this logic right? • Jan 17, 2025

Slog Reference: Why Some Things in Life Should Be Hard

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Have you ever thought that doing hard things might actually help you more than doing easy things? In this video, we explain how some of the best lessons in life come from challenges, not shortcuts. We’ll talk about why easy classes or simple solutions might not help you learn as much as you think. You'll also find out why putting in effort, even when it’s tough, can make you stronger, smarter, and more successful in the long run!

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00:00 Easy Vs Hard
01:18 Should Life be Hard?
03:45 Is it BAD to get easy things in life?
05:40 Short Term Easy VS Long Term Easy
09:18 Everything in life should require a lot of effort?

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- we all love teachers who make things easy for us but did you know that their students actually learn less did you know that there is research showing that if the class isn't hard the students actually learn less you just you just ruin the premise for ratemyprofessor.com entirely absolutely there is actually research showing that teachers who get the highest ratings are not necessarily the teachers who students learn the most okay there is another related research showing that when you ask students how much did you learn in class the classes where they say I learned the most are actually not the classes where they learned the most okay okay classes where they struggled they worked harder they

0m 51s claimed they didn't like the class they claim they didn't learn much in the class and in reality if you look at the scores the performances and what they learned you will see that those are the classes where they learned more and not the classes which were easy and they thought they learned a lot okay I struggled in all of my classes in physics I don't think I've learned much but I am probably one of the exceptions or whatever but what are you saying things should be hard life should be hard I am saying that unless there is an effort you are not going to get much out of an activity okay things in life sh

1m 30s there should be effort okay I'm not saying life should be hard and tough and like you know you should be poor not that hard but in terms of effort yes so I want to go through a bunch of possibilities okay in some cases we instinctively know that this will be useless unless it's hard for example exercise oh yeah right of course I mean you don't go to a gym where the gym is going to tell you you know what our weights are 50% lighter correct okay yeah I mean you know that exercise has to be hard work for it to have any value correct and for it to have any results correct same thing I mean if you are learning a

2m 09s musical instrument or something you know that practice and tal and you have to do hard exercises that's how you get better right in fact we have an episode called deliberate practice where we push this point right yes but there are other cases where we forget this fact or we don't realize what is going on right okay because if something is easy and we are going for easy we don't realize that there is a hidden problem there right true so if you can get into a college very easily very likely that's not going to add much value to your resume right it's only when the college is hard to get into that's when it looks good on

2m 50s your resume good point good point similarly if you are making money very easily very likely it's a scam there is no make money easy in the world okay it's always hard okay similarly you know there's this great joke of by grouo marks saying that I don't want to be a member of any club which will accept me you want to be in a club where membership is hard in fact you just barely got in that's the ideal club for you to be in right and there is one club that everybody wants to get into but it is incredibly hard which is the Tas Club yeah so uh and you know we did an episode called the dip where we point

3m 33s out that anything worthwhile in life worth doing is going to get hard at some point otherwise if it was not hard everybody would be doing it correct and it wouldn't be worthwhile but hold on a second there are several things in life situations in life where I haven't had to take effort constantly for example my relationship with my wife very smooth sailing we rarely have any fights or my friends very smooth sailing we don't have any fights is that not worth it then is that worthless are you saying no so this is a variation okay that there are certain situations where if it is easy that is fine right but actually things could be even better if you put

4m 11s in some effort right so a long-term relationships you should put in more effort and you will get Returns on that effort probably there are no fights because I put in the effort absolutely I was just going to get to that right one of the questions that gets asked is that oh well some people people just have it easy they don't have to put in effort right and there are two reasons for that one is that often you don't see the effort they make it look effortless but it is not effortless second is that they don't have to put in the effort now because they put an effort 20 years ago right both of those are true in case of

4m 50s my wife right also possible is that some people are born with some talents so certain things come easy to them and they're difficult for the rest of the world world now that is the ideal situation to be in that is one of the few cases where actually you can get non-trivial returns from minimal effort right you should try to find what areas of life exist in which you are good at it and the rest of the world has to put an effort right if you can find that excellent go for it other areas you know put in the effort that's youra you are Eden Hazard that's it but the whole point of life is to make

5m 32s life easy for ourselves yeah well the problem here is that there is a difference between short-term easy and long-term easy okay the point of life is to have some level of ease throughout right not make it so easy today that you're screwed tomorrow right yeah so I'll give a very different kind of example okay imagine small children they're just learning to walk H okay parents have this tendency oh I should make it easy for him or her to learn to walk and they give this walker thing right yeah and now the child is standing in a walker and they can't fall so they just do their like this with their legs and they can go forward and backward I

6m 14s call it air swimming air swimming that's actually quite bad for the kid really the kid does not really learn walking very well they don't learn the balance part of walking more than that the kid needs to put weight on their legs that's how their bones in the legs and the muscles get strengthened right so by making things easy for the children you are actually making the rest of their life tough okay and this generalizes uh to a lot of parenting okay the typical marwadi mother makes life so easy for her son that it makes the life of that son's wife really difficult later on okay I want to clarify here he can speak like that about maradi mothers

7m 04s because nain is Mari so he's allowed but you know you know what I mean yeah yeah I do know what you mean let's apply this concept to a whole bunch of other places right okay say in your job you get a job you struggle for the first few months after that you can do everything easily yeah so you just chill and you Coast what's going to happen is that you're not going to get promotions in the same way that someone else who's working hard on learning the next level of skills learning adjacent skills you're not going to do as well as that other person yeah I was about to say uh that's because the other person

7m 42s went and did uh brown nosing and whatnot but then I realized what I think of brown nosing maybe that person thinks as networking and we've done an entire episode on networking so yeah point taken point taken so food right food that is easy to eat is most likely bad for your health right junk food is created designed for you to eat it like you want to eat it right inhale it yeah whereas salads and things with fiber and I mean you just get tired of chewing those things right but those are the ones that are good for you right Bollywood makes you think that relationship should be easy but usually they are not they are absolutely not I

8m 28s think earlier in the episode you just claimed your relationship was easy just to make a point but it is not right you know it I know it there are no long-term relationships that are easy I am lucky to have a relationship with a person who is understanding and who lets me get away with a lot of things which makes she works hard she works hard so that she works hard so I don't have to so essentially what I'm getting from this entire conversation is everything that you do in life should require some amount or maybe a lot lot of effort not really okay you should divide your life into two buckets okay one bucket is

9m 07s things that are really really important to you in the long term okay those should be hard there you should put in the effort that's what guarantees that in the long term they remain good and smooth and all of that okay everything else in life it is okay for them to be easy okay you might not get the best there but you decided it's not important so it's just a matter of convincing yourself that it's fine I did the took the easy way I got less than the best possible returns and I'm okay with that right this concept is called saing as opposed to maximizing we have done an episode check it out I just going to

9m 47s mention that we've done something important principle I have in life is the following these two buckets I call it the 97% rule that there should be roughly 3% of things in life which are in the important buck 97% of the things do not matter let them go let it go let it go don't let this one go so to summarize uh right if things are easy that sets you up for hardships later on that sets you up for failure later on or there is a hidden problem that you are just not seeing and it's going to hit you in the face right things certain things should be hard because if they are not hard then they

10m 31s are not worth doing correct make sure you understand this in your life which parts of your life should be hard H and if you want to figure out how much of that hardship you should take before giving up then we have an episode called the dip that you should definitely check out it doesn't have all the answers but it has some answers at least ANW is enough for you to start thinking about that some more and while you continue think thinking about that some more get ready for this some more Shri Kant naen future IQ