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Things that aren't doing the thing

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Re: Things that aren't doing the thing

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Post by andy99 »

I see this as a kind of inspiration / perspiration thing, and I’m on Tesla’s side that you perspire less if you think more. I like to not do the thing for a really long time, and then do it quickly, having thought it through. I see some people that jump into things without thinking, and take what is imo the more difficult route, with worse results.

I know there are some things you need to start to really understand what’s going on, but as much as possible I’d rather mull over things a lot and gather information and clarify my thinking before doing the thing.

Re: Things that aren't doing the thing

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Post by forgetfulness »

shawn-butler wrote: post #43
nagisa wrote: post #11

If you have no idea how to do the thing, isn't reading about how others did the thing doing the thing?

Then it isn't a thing you can do.

Becoming someone who can do the thing is how you get to do a lot of things

Not what your boss and your bosses’ boss wants you to do, instead of doing other things you can do to maximize value for shareholders in some arbitrarily chosen amount of time

But thinking of how you wouldn’t have permission to get ready to do the thing in a business context, also, isn’t doing the thing

Re: Things that aren't doing the thing

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Post by alentred »

Here's my take, in no particular order:

- Ignoring that all people are different does not make you an expert in human psychology

- Discovering what procrastination is (and still failing to name it or provide actual coping mechanisms) does not make you an expert in human psychology

- Failing to recognize elementary human behavior does not make you an expert in human psychology

- Utterly neglecting the act of double creation (first imagine, then create) does not make you an expert in human psychology

- Being energetic and with only a few tasks at hand and writing off everyone else as lazy does not make you an expert in human psychology

- Writing a post about human psychology does not make you an expert in human psychology

I would continue my list, but gotta go. To do... , you know.

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