The amount of motivation you need to overcome static friction is directly tied to the amount of burden to start.

· Bits and Bobs 3/23/26
  • The amount of motivation you need to overcome static friction is directly tied to the amount of burden to start.
    • If the expected short-term value is clearly greater than the expected short-term cost, it will just make sense to do.
      • "How much better" is the gradient.
      • Steeper gradients are easier to activate.
    • The challenge is when the short-term cost is greater than the long-term value.[ag][ah]
    • Long-term is more abstract and fuzzy and thus loses out to the more concrete, obvious short-term values.