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It's similar to me wanting to get fit by spending a whole day deciding which trainers to buy, then never wearing them. The illusion of progress.
by blowski 3y ago
It's similar to me wanting to get fit by spending a whole day deciding which trainers to buy, then never wearing them. The illusion of progress.
- freeplay 3y agoI felt this one.
- switchbak 3y agoThere's a flip side: you can focus all of your time on 'working hard' but never pay attention to how you're doing it. In fitness this might be more like: you spend all your time jogging in terrible shoes, working "comfortably hard" and pushing through the pain. Instead you could spend a few hours researching modern training approaches and running techniques and change the entire trajectory of what you could achieve as an athlete. You can change the focus of how you work, reduce wasted or ineffectual energy and put that into dedicated efforts that have maximal payoff. This debate is as old as work itself though, and I'm probably not changing any minds here.
- blowski 3y agoYes, this is "sharpening the saw". But we all know people who, despite boasting a lot about their extremely sharp saw, chop zero trees. Balance, in all things.
- josephg 3y ago> Balance, in all things. Maybe - but if so, also balance in being balanced. Sometimes "going hard" is needed to make a deadline. And sometimes when you're burned out, you need to do zero work for awhile. I think the better advice is something like: "Be present with the actual moment. Listen to the world and then take the right next action thats actually needed.". Sometimes the next action is sharpening the saw. Sometimes its playing with your kids, or taking a nap, or finally chopping that tree. Its impossible to know whats needed without being actually present with whats going on right now.
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