Do the boring thing once and it's a chore. Do it a thousand times and it's a life. The reps pay you twice.

The thought behind it

This one does the sum out loud — the one you have been carrying in your head and quietly rounding down. The Long Game trades the satisfying story for the slower one that actually finishes. Everything hinges on “twice”, which is the part a politer version of this sentence would have left out.