You’re not going to like it. It has different forms, but here’s one:

Do what has to be done, when it has to be done, and do it that way every time.

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Avoiding what has to be done feels miserable. The world is against you, you’re against yourself, you know you’re creating future problems, and it feels bad.

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The great human curse isn’t that we are bad, but that we deny what’s true and obvious. It simply cannot be the case that I should do the thing I should do! There must be some mistake!

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Living by the dictum is harder than anything, but paradoxically, nothing else creates so much ease and freedom so quickly. It exposes reality-denying habits like an x-ray machine, helping you drop them one by one as you see their absurdity.

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I’m not good at living the dictum, but I can’t deny its necessity anymore. The only advice I have is not to treat it like a “wagon” you can fall off and get back on later. It’s not like a diet. It’s an ever-present light to see by.

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