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I’m wildly more effective at my current 18 hrs/week than I ever was at 100. Part of that is experience and maturity. Part of that is the nature of diminishing r

• sillysaurusx 5y ago
  Right? Isn't it cool coming in and doing more in 18 hours than some people do in weeks? It's sort of interesting trying to analyze why we couldn't when we were 23 or so. For me, I may have been talented, but I certainly wasn't effective. The reason was almost entirely because I didn't think carefully about the tasks I took on. "Get it done" was the mindset, not "Should I do this?"
  • emerged 5y ago
    For me it was all about discipline and time/task management. These things could’ve been taught to me at a young age and my young success would’ve been dramatically multiplied and compounded over the years. Unfortunately I didn’t have a mentor, let alone one who could’ve communicated these things in a way I would’ve understood. Pruning away useless tasks (at all levels of abstraction) is part of it for sure. That can be generalized into effective prioritization. Mind blowing that absolutely none of these most important meta-tasks were never presented let along taught to me.