Dread & Satisfaction

There are few things as satisfying as doing something that you have been dreading. I spend a lot of time avoiding things, so I build up a lot of stress putting things off. I imagine there are people in the world that are riding high all the time by just constantly doing things that they dread. Imagine the constant satisfaction! But I suspect that the buildup is proportional to the release. How much satisfaction can you get from an undesirable task when you haven't spent days building up dread?

This is probably another balancing act. One more set of trade-offs. Pay a large dread investment and yield a large satisfaction return. Like all trade-offs, the trick is maximizing the benefit for the least cost. At least this is what my capitalism infused brain tells me. Maybe it is better thought of as achieving balance and avoiding extremes. There is no need to turn the dial to zero, and there is no way to turn the dial to zero, so that is a good thing. Just nudge the dial a bit more to the balanced side. Maybe put things off a little less and get less satisfaction for less dread.

These things are tricky though. There are always confounding variables. It is likely I get more satisfaction if a task is done quickly, for example. Also, clearly, the dial for "spending time turning dials" should probably be turned down as well.