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Stop trying to make hard work easy

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Re: Stop trying to make hard work easy

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Post by Krasnol »

tiborsaas wrote: post #3
Someone1234 wrote: post #2

Long but the meat is missing. The most important subsection is "Most moments of distraction are caused by internal triggers." But that section lacks anything approaching concrete advice. It just repeats already written ideas then offers this: > So if you want to deal with distraction the first thing you have to do is deal with the negative emotional triggers that lead to it. The next section, regardless of the title,…

> But that section lacks anything approaching concrete advice. Maybe because he wants to sell his book :) Also notice he uses distraction instead of procrastination most of the time. The core ides is solid though that it's a emotion management problem. If you can control your emotions related to a given task, you can be more productive.

Don't forget the most important aspect of this teaser ad:

> Nir is also an advisor to several Bay Area start-ups, venture capitalists, and incubators.

Good it's on the front page of HN ;)

Re: Stop trying to make hard work easy

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Post by ImprobableTruth »

runawaybottle wrote: post #5
Someone1234 wrote: post #2

Long but the meat is missing. The most important subsection is "Most moments of distraction are caused by internal triggers." But that section lacks anything approaching concrete advice. It just repeats already written ideas then offers this: > So if you want to deal with distraction the first thing you have to do is deal with the negative emotional triggers that lead to it. The next section, regardless of the title,…

Sometimes one of the triggers is that it’s hard, and if it’s a hard thing you have to regularly do, you should be looking to find a way to do it easier. Otherwise it becomes a suck-it-up-and-just-do-it strategy, which is a fine when used reasonably, but it too can be exhausted as a strategy. But anyway, all of our tools and progress flys in the face of the author’s suggestion. We are at this point in society because…

It's not about working hard, but about accepting that it's okay to feel challenged by work. Reducing the amount of work is, of course, great, but unless you completely automate your job it's never going to be always easy.

Re: Stop trying to make hard work easy

#36

Post by throwanem »

Krasnol wrote: post #31
tiborsaas wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But that section lacks anything approaching concrete advice. Maybe because he wants to sell his book :) Also notice he uses distraction instead of procrastination most of the time. The core ides is solid though that it's a emotion management problem. If you can control your emotions related to a given task, you can be more productive.

Don't forget the most important aspect of this teaser ad: > Nir is also an advisor to several Bay Area start-ups, venture capitalists, and incubators. Good it's on the front page of HN ;)

Hey, it only took five attempts, apparently crafted with some care to bypass the dup checker, to get it there, too.

Re: Stop trying to make hard work easy

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Post by mercules »

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

Long but the meat is missing. The most important subsection is "Most moments of distraction are caused by internal triggers." But that section lacks anything approaching concrete advice. It just repeats already written ideas then offers this: > So if you want to deal with distraction the first thing you have to do is deal with the negative emotional triggers that lead to it. The next section, regardless of the title,…

Maybe the response to your questions is available in the book instead of in a free 3,000 word long post that has been provided to you.

I guess the widely availability of free sources has skewed perspective on what is of value.

Re: Stop trying to make hard work easy

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Post by crimsonalucard »

>“Well, I have news for you: some things are just hard. There’s no way of getting around it.”

If you think this, but I have a way to make something 10x easier that you can't or don't know how to do then I can sell my idea to you as a service for a monthly subscription fee.

Re: Stop trying to make hard work easy

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Post by kordlessagain »

emps-new-groove wrote: post #33

Found this to be insightful. Maybe everyone is too use to being spoon fed a habit or quick trick. Which is the point of the message. You need to find your own method as you better understand the problem. Ie., stop trying to make hard things easy...

I suppose y'all pumping this story are aware this concept was already started by someone else? Which probably makes sense, given the pre-loading of key terms "stp tring mae har eas" in this new user's post.

https://medium.com/swlh/stop-trying-to-make-everything-easy-...

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