Easiest Way = Hardest Way

The easiest way to do things is by doing things the hardest way. This might sound crazy at first sight. Trust me on this every technology which makes life easier was made the hard way. Cars were built the hardest way until production lines came into being where robots fix or build cars. Of course robots were not built the soft way.
As an advocate of doing things the easiest way, I jumped into a situation whereby one has change over 2000 records which follow a specific pattern. My workmates started but I told them to stop since I will be writing codes to get the job done. Thinks the codes were too much? You are absolutely wrong. After analysing the data and comparing and contrasting, I run the first line of code with a sample followed by the second line of code- just 2 lines of code to save hours of clicking.
My workmates were excited as  they could go about their businesses for the day. Building codes is the hardest way to do things but in the end it pays off. Considering it took me about 2 hours to analyse and bring the code up to do a work which could have taken 3 to 4 days, I must admit nothing beats the hardest way of doing things.
But it is the course of wisdom not to do things the hard way if technology exists which will make one do things easier.