Introduction The purpose of this post is to take a look at a phenomenon I saw in my life and I think some of you might see in yours: chronic almost-achievement. The ability to give every task 95%, but avoid giving anything 100% like the plague for fear of failure and self-disappointment. Outline What’s a 95%-er? Why is 95% Bad? Why [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 29, 2008
Imagine you are sitting on a park bench, in the middle of the day and a stranger sits down next to you. He then turns to you and says: You have 24hrs to take control of your life, or you will die. What do you do? What does that phrase, “take control of your life”, mean to [...]
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A great blog post over at LifeHack, my favorites were: Most of it doesn’t matter. Waiting to do something until you can be sure of doing it exactly right means waiting for ever. Every winner is destined to be a loser in due course. You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole. People are oddly consistent. However [...]
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Friday, July 18, 2008
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