More often than I care to admit, I'll spend more effort trying to do things "the easy way" than it would have taken to just do it _the right way_ (or the hard way). To put it another way, pretty frequently: > [!tip] Frequently... > The "hard way" is actually the _easy way_... > ...and the easy way is actually the _hard way_. This comes up all the time when it comes to fixing things around the house (where it's often [[Do it Right, do it Once]]), but also situations where you slide off the couch to barely reach the drink that's out of reach rather than standing up to get it - only to knock the drink over... or to just struggle your way through way more adversity than you were expecting to simply reach it. You have a screw to take off from a child's toy to replace the batteries. You _could_ go get a proper screwdriver, but instead you sit there and jack with it using the crappy one on the back of a multitool. Save yourself 20 steps and cost yourself 2 minutes of frustration. This is not **always** true, though. [[Sometimes Cutting Corners is Just a Shortcut]]. The trick is knowing when. **** # More ## Source - Experience ## Related