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Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by Nevermark »

mojuba wrote: post #53

> Doing it badly is doing the thing. No it's not. Sometimes (or maybe most of the time) doing it badly means maybe it's not your thing. I used to have a neighbour who liked to play the piano and sing. He was doing it consistently badly and he didn't have anyone to tell him that he should probably stop trying.

Who are you, to define what "the thing" is, for someone else?

Doing the thing isn't about judging other people. That doesn't contribute to your thing.

If someone is bothering you, making it hard to do your thing, then your thing involves talking to them about your problem. Without judging what they are doing.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by hahahahhaah »

cortesoft wrote: post #89

I get the sentiment, but thinking and planning are important steps to doing things. Obviously you can’t stop there, and you shouldn’t spend too much time on that part, but it is still important.

Planning to do the thing is a new thing, thing2

Doing the thing2 is doing the thing2

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by hahahahhaah »

jgeada wrote: post #61

At a previous company we used to joke that most of management was a "problem admiration society": They'd love to talk about problems, investigate them from all angles, make plans on how to plan to solve the problem, identify who caused it or how to blame for it, quantify how much it costs us or how much money we could make from solving it, everything and anything except actually doing something about it. It was never…

That is OK if that fed into a decision to do another thing now because of .

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by hahahahhaah »

rdsubhas wrote: post #79

The article was great — for solopreneurs. There are things that humans have to unfortunately do when working as a group of people. That's why we became the alpha predator. Not because we were the strongest ape. That includes: - Filling in timesheets, quarterly, half yearly cycles, company meetings, team meetings is not doing the thing — as a solopreneur. But not as a member of a group. - Writing tickets, reviewing PR…

I dont take the post too literally.

I take it to mean: if you can just do the thing now (you are in the right place, healthy, with tools and prerequisites) and you choose not to because of (procrastination reasons) then you could be doing the task but you choose not to.

For corps: timesheets is one of the things.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by cortesoft »

hahahahhaah wrote: post #92
cortesoft wrote: post #89

I get the sentiment, but thinking and planning are important steps to doing things. Obviously you can’t stop there, and you shouldn’t spend too much time on that part, but it is still important.

Planning to do the thing is a new thing, thing2 Doing the thing2 is doing the thing2

Ok, but thing2 is a dependency of thing, so you have to do thing2 before you can do thing.

What do you gain by saying it isn't thing? You have to do it first either way.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by LTL_FTC »

I don’t get it? Are they sharing a quote they liked or taking credit for it? Maybe they just saw the YouTube video and decided to turn it into the page?

Edit: Seems like a way to show they’re looking for roles, I guess.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

jackfranklyn wrote: post #77

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+1, if you can get positive feelings from doing something bad, i think that gives real improvement to one’s life. “The first step to getting good is being bad”.

Of course you’ll also maintain the satisfaction of doing something well.

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