MBlume comments on Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MBlume 02 January 2011 10:12:46AM *  21 points [-]

Consider going swimming and having to overcome the pain of entering water colder than surrounding. This pain, less momentary than the one in question and (more or less) equally discounted, doesn't produce problematic hesitation.

I usually wind up standing by the pool for a good ten minutes, or until one of my brothers shoves me in...