The difficulty in choosing the easier option.

If you had a choice between a traffic-laden route that takes longer and one that seems empty and faster, you wouldn't choose the traffic-laden one just because it's hard. That would be ridiculous.

But, when it comes to our work, we find it difficult to make the easier choice.

A false sense of morality has been attached to choosing the harder path. If that's the only path available, then it makes sense. But if not, then choosing the harder path is nothing but self-sabotage.