The Path of Least Resistance
Human beings in any case, are most likely to pick the path that has little resistance. In other ways we will pick the easier way of doing things not the harder way.This is why people take short cuts, to avoid the path with most resistance. The path of least resistance is the physical or metaphorical pathway that provides the least resistance to forward motion by a given object or entity, among a set of alternative paths. The concept is often used to describe why an object or entity takes a given path. The way in which water flows is often given as an example for the idea. In a previous blog post (Titled the War of Art) I wrote about how resistance exists everywhere in different forms. Below is an article sourced from psychologytoday.com published by Caroline Beaton (www.carolinebeaton.com) A University of College London study published recently discovered something we knew but denied: We’re lazy. Of course, this isn’t unique to humans. Everything takes the path of least resi...