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Give Ideas Time to Incubate
A side-effect of committing to one project is that you end up putting off all the rest. By the time you finally start a project, you’ve been thinking about it for a while.
This extra incubation time has two virtues:
- It filters out bad ideas. Since you only pursue the ideas that have stuck with you during your commitment to other projects, you end up pursuing projects you care about deeply.
- Extra time results in better plans. As you ponder a potential project, you turn over the possible difficulties in your mind.
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Tying Yourself to Reality
It’s more fun to think about being good at something than to actually do the work to get good. Thus we daydream, rather than take action.
The problem is that daydreaming alone doesn’t lead anywhere. None of the projects we imagine but never work on are ever realized. This ...
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The Mindset of Open Options
We live in a culture that prizes keeping one’s options open. It’s better to be maximally flexible, the popular reasoning goes so that we can respond to any opportunity at a moment’s notice. Committing to anything, even for just a few months, locks away other possibilities, and is...
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Set Shorter Projects
Short commitments tend to lead to greater accomplishment than long ones.
It’s not the intention to commit that matters, but whether you follow through with it.
A multi-year effort has a much higher chance at being abandoned than a three-month project does
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Being Passion About Ideas
If you have a stack of ideas, you have to be ruthless about which ones you choose to pursue.
Give time for the ideas to settle. You'll find you are much less excited about some of the ideas you've written down. During the process of pursuing an idea, someone will have to be personall...
Mind Map It
A common reason for feeling stuck on a project is because there’s too much information to process, causing you to lose clarity on your end goal.
Mind mapping is a visual note-taking style to help you get your ideas out on paper. Essentially, you’re making a map of how all of your ideas rela...
The SMART Method
Time commitment to get started: Medium
Type: Abstract
Perfect for people who: Are in the early phases of a big project and need to strategize before jumping in.
What it does: Turns big, abstract ideas and goals ...
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