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Reasons for procrastination
boredom
frustration
difficulty level
unstructured/ambiguous goal
lack of personal meaning
lack of intrinsic reward
A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
Bill Wurtz on HTML Energy
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If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?
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Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
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