Term

Friction

Everything standing between a person and an action: distance, time, effort, money. The greater the friction, the less often an action is repeated.

Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, Wendy Wood

Explained in

• Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, Wendy Wood
• The Human Machine, Arnold Bennett

  Bennett's metaphor for the clashes, irritation and resentment of everyday life, especially between people.

• On War, Carl von Clausewitz

  the sum of small real-world snags that make the simple turn difficult

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