BoJack Horseman - "It gets easier" (Season 2 Ending)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN shares it as encouragement in threads about habits, discipline, and social anxiety.
What it is
A short clip from the Season 2 finale of BoJack Horseman in which a character says that doing the hard thing every day gets easier. It is set to a Courtney Barnett song.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends azhu · 2019-05 · on “Ask HN: How to initiate or respond to small talk (not the programming language)?”
Thought of something else worthwhile to add: for myself and many others, there may be some set of "abnormal" psychological factors that make it exceptionally difficult to trial yourself by fire. If you are that, I offer you this clip from one of the wisest television shows ever created, Bojack Horseman. [this video]
Recommends justsocrateasin · 2023-02 · on “Screw motivation, what you need is discipline”
It's funny though because you only need a short amount of discipline. Because after you use discipline for a while, it just gets way easier as it becomes a habit. Reminds me of this great Bojack Horseman clip - [this video] Years and years ago I started training seriously for a triathlon. Then a half ironman. Then a marathon, and after 2-3 years of having a few races a year on the calendar, I just started exercising every day. At the start, a lot of the days took discipline/motivation to get out the door. After a while, it was just a few days of discipline a week. Then a few days a month, then a few days a year. Now it's automatic, and something I actually look forward to rather than dread (obvio
Cites shafyy · 2021-07 · on “The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday”
Like the Jogging Baboon from Bojack Horseman says: "Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier." [this video]