> Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing. Don’t agree. Planning steps is part of doing the thing.
I was thinking the same, but at the end of the day the author has a point and it's not doing the thing.
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#72To be fair though, for any cool thing I've done, before actually doing the thing, I've also spent time doing the things that TFA says aren't doing the thing.
Helps me get pumped up or whatever
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#73It doesn't matter how fast you are moving if you are going in the wrong direction. Nonetheless, these are good points.
Well, if you learn something along the way that teaches you what the right direction is, then you still made progress.
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#74Marketing is absolutely doing the thing; ignore this to your peril. I don't think reality is quite as binary as this post suggests.
But that would be doing the thing after you’ve done the thing no?
Movie trailers come out before production is finished. In fact sometimes before production has even meaningfully started.
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#75Right but I see this taken too far. Getting side eyed for creating a Jira ticket not doing it now. Dude, I am creating a Jira ticket because I have 100 things to do and need to actual priorise this! If I do stuff in the order of serendipity I will definitely be inefficient.
I don't think that this is an indictment of creating the Jira ticket, or prioritization, or anything. It reads to me like a reminder that we often focus too heavily on the other work and thoughts that are adjacent to doing something, get lost in the weeds, and don't actually end up doing the thing.
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#76Meaningless platitude. All the things mentioned (visualisation, scheduling, breaking into smaller tasks, etc.) are proven to work. If you cannot do a task but you do the above things, you will eventually be able to do the task. You know what isn't proven to work? Willing your brain to "just do it" like this article implies.
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#77Meaningless platitude. All the things mentioned (visualisation, scheduling, breaking into smaller tasks, etc.) are proven to work. If you cannot do a task but you do the above things, you will eventually be able to do the task. You know what isn't proven to work? Willing your brain to "just do it" like this article implies.
Agreed. But there’s still a type of Zeno’s paradox if you don’t start and continue and finish the thing. As someone that has no trouble planning or starting but a lot of trouble continuing to the end, I find this kind of stuff helpful to completing what I set out to do.
As Jobs said “real artists ship.”
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#78LinkedIn is over there.
So obnoxious. More bullshit to make us self-conscious.
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#80> Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing. Don’t agree. Planning steps is part of doing the thing.
I was thinking the same, but at the end of the day the author has a point and it's not doing the thing.
Super reductionist, is the moment between clicks on the keyboard also not doing the thing?