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From Road Trip: "...of course it's hard, it's a shortcut- if it were easy, it'd just be 'the way'..."
If you had to work for it, it was an accomplishment. There is no valor in that which required negligible effort. Our minds are set up to mentally 'reward' us for hard work, by giving us a feeling of satisfaction. Can you imagine where we, the human race, would be without this basic drive? Cognitive Dissonance is where this drive meets a higher level of expectation, and puts you in a 'class', or peer group, different than (and perceived by those inside as better than) most.
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