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by swagmoose 845 days ago
I often think back to a scene in BoJack Horseman, when he starts jogging and collapses at the top of a hill. A veteran runner sees him and says:

"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier".

The gym, self-care, flossing.The list goes on, but that scene really clicked for me.

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The counterpoint to this is Greg LeMond's (possibly apocryphal) quote about cycling training: "it never gets easier, you just go faster." LeMond is the only American to win the Tour de France.

Closest I can get to a citation. https://books.google.com/books?id=PCtBBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...

In regards to flossing, I used to never do it, until a new dentist told I oughta or my teeth would fall out in my 20s. I was 16 when that happened, and I have flossed every single day since. Now I can't brush my teeth without flossing. The process just feels incomplete without it.