<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A complaint can pay better than a solution.... > A complaint can pay better than a solution. Sympathy, attention, and fresh audiences reward the person who keeps retelling a story of misfortune, while an actual solution would end the story and the attention with it, which is why the same account so often travels from one new circle of friends to the next. Before offering comfort for the hundredth time, ask what the story is earning, because behavior repeats wherever it continues to be rewarded. **Source:** [[livestreams/Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change - Workbook|Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A complaint can pay better than a solution. Sympathy, attention, and fresh audiences reward the person who keeps retelling a story of misfortune, while an actual solution would end the story and the attention with it, which is why the same account so often travels from one new circle of friends to the next. Before offering comfort for the hundredth time, ask what the story is earning, because behavior repeats wherever it continues to be rewarded.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-complaint-pay-better-wherever-continues-rewarded ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->