I disagree that the point of the article was to make the obvious point that hard work is unpleasant. Rather, I thought he was trying to illustrate that there are components of many tasks that are easy to discount the importance of. Instead of attending to certain details that seem pointless on the margin, or may have less obvious benefit, the focus may be placed on more mission-critical tasks. It's not that those other tasks don't require hard work; it's that it may be easier to place the focus on them because it's more apparent why they need to be done.
Perhaps, it would do everyone some good to focus on the things we suck at doing or can't see the obvious benefit to doing.
Perhaps, it would do everyone some good to focus on the things we suck at doing or can't see the obvious benefit to doing.