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11. How to avoid procrastination?
- The trick is to think about your future self whenever you feel like avoiding a responsibility
- For Eg., how would my future self feel if I skipped gym?
- This boils down to delayed gratification, you are likely to take on the responsibility
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Doing things for people is rarely as helpful as it seems like it should be. If they don’t understand what you built, you’ve made things worse. If they don’t know how to maintain it, you’ve made things worse. If you didn’t know enough about their requirements to get implementation correct, you’ve made things worse. If they don’t care about using or maintaining the thing you’ve built because they didn’t build it and have no sense of ownership or obligation to it, you’ve made things worse.
All the Best Engineering Advice I Stole From Non-Technical People
Marianne Bellotti
Audiences open their hearts, as well as their minds, to speakers who deliberately deflate themselves by calling attention to some deficiency or failing on their part, in a humorous sense, of course.
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Dale Carnegie
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