Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

by Anthony Raymond

So, we devise reasons to defer the labor that is required to learn it. Of course, this avoidance strategy applies to other domains too: We don’t know if we’ll like the city we’re considering moving to, so we put off calling the realtor. We don’t know if the girl in our class would ever go on a date with us, so we put off asking for her phone number. We don’t know if our business proposal will result in praise or mockery, so we put off telling anyone about it.