Gravity

There's one force underneath corruption, entropy, and your own bias—the pull toward least effort. The brain conserves energy, organizations sprawl as they grow, the economy rewards number-go-up. Same force, three scales. Call it gravity.

The hard thing, the true thing, is always the high-energy path—so the force always points away from it.

And you can't out-willpower it. Willpower is just more energy, and gravity wins the energy war every time. You can't fight nature. You can only learn to see it.