Whatever it takes, redux

I am willing to do whatever it takes to do as little as possible to seem to have worked hard to appear to have achieved whatever I can manage to get away with.

And you can count on that!I’m not lazy. I will work as hard as I need to work to impress people with how hard I’m working.

I will do whatever it takes to convince people that I’m willing to do whatever it takes.

I’ll do as little as possible to appear to be going all out. And I’ll constantly innovate and find ways to do less while I seem to do more.

The person I most want to impress with how hard I seem to work is me. So that’s why I'll do whatever it takes to convince myself that I'm doing as much as possible to achieve the goals that I want to believe that I care about.

Fortunately, I'm not that hard to convince.

Otherwise, I'd have to work harder.Sacrifices? I’ll make whatever sacrifice I need to appear to be willing to make an actual sacrifice.

Help? Of course, I’ll ask for help. I’ll ask for enough help to make it clear that I’m serious enough about change to ask for help. That should be enough.

Commitment? I am utterly committed to finding the most effective way to appear to be committed while doing as little as I can.Like right now.

It’s easier to write about how willing I am to avoid doing more challenging things than to write this. So that’s what I’m going to do.

I’ll appear to be confronting a severe problem by glibly writing a few amusing paragraphs.And then I’ll post it, giving the illusion that I’m committed to changing my behavior by exposing my trickery when I’m really only committed to providing the illusion that I’m committed.Given that I’m aware that I always pull this kind of shit, what can I possibly do that isn’t more of the same?I don’t know.

But I’ll tell you one thing for sure: I’m going to do as little possible to appear to be utterly committed to answering that question while avoiding it.

I wrote an earlier version of this post in February 2018.

And to make sure everyone knows how serious I am, I’m going to edit it and repost it every three and a half years or so.

This version is from September 2021.