<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Golden handcuffs work because the reward for... > Golden handcuffs work because the reward for staying is immediate and legible while the cost of staying is distributed across years. Price the arrangement honestly: include health, attention, development, dignity, family time, foreclosed opportunity, and the future competence you are not building. **Source:** [[livestreams/Love, Work, and the Courage to Leave False Security - Workbook|Love, Work, and the Courage to Leave False Security]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Golden handcuffs work because the reward for staying is immediate and legible while the cost of staying is distributed across years. Price the arrangement honestly: include health, attention, development, dignity, family time, foreclosed opportunity, and the future competence you are not building.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-golden-handcuffs-work-future-competence-building ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->