The 2-Minute Fixes We Never Get Around To
The squeaky hinge. The sticky drawer. None of them are hard to fix. So why do they stay broken for years?
Why we tolerate small annoyances, and how to actually deal with them.
The squeaky hinge. The sticky drawer. None of them are hard to fix. So why do they stay broken for years?
It’s not laziness. There’s a real psychological reason small annoyances survive so much longer than big ones.
You stopped noticing it weeks ago. That doesn’t mean it stopped costing you anything.