[extropy-chat] Personal effectiveness

[Hugh Crowther]

William H Calvin, wonderful man, attributed many of of our trials and
tribulations to 'environmental incoherence'. He advised scaling back your
initial expectations to where you're right only half of the time.

He later, in his 'A Brain for all Seasons', quoted, "For every complex
problem there is a simple and easy to understand incorrect answer".

One could find this advice depressing, except when  you consider it wouldn't
be fun if it was easy.

H

> From: "Emlyn O'regan" <oregan.emlyn at healthsolve.com.au>
> Reply-To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:09:35 +1030
> To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Personal effectiveness
> 
> I'd be grateful for some insite on this too. David, I feel your pain :-)
> 
> Emlyn
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Lubkin [mailto:extropy at unreasonable.com]
>> Sent: Monday, 24 November 2003 5:17 AM
>> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>> Subject: [extropy-chat] Personal effectiveness
>> 
>> 
>> When I look at my life-efforts thus far, I see a recurring
>> pattern that's 
>> very frustrating, that I'm eager to change.  I welcome
>> helpful suggestions.
>> 
>> I put substantial effort into a project but move on to something else
>> before there's a payoff for the effort.  Sometimes I can
>> eventually get 
>> back to it and pick up where I left off.  Sometimes
>> everything I did was
>> ultimately pointless.
>> 
>> When there's external pressure, I force myself to concentrate and
>> finish.  When the task is one I've just set for myself, I don't.
>> 
>> I know some people's answer is to monomaniacally focus on one
>> task, finish, 
>> and move on.
>> 
>> That's not me.  I have myriad interests and I delight in this.
>> 
>> I look at certain other people who are involved in many
>> things yet are able
>> to produce tangible results in several arenas on a regular basis.
>> 
>> What are they doing that I'm not?
>> 
>> I'm aware of simple-minded time management answers; I'm looking for
>> personal insight from other smart people with diverse interests.
>> 
>> 
>> -- David Lubkin.
>> 
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