Will Perry
Will Perry
feeling leave today understanding
I leave today with a better feeling and understanding of the courts,
early fall girls learned life realized six
I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
hope maybe
I hope they go all the way. I hope they get two wins, maybe more. I like their team. I think they are really talented. They execute, they are smart, they know how to play.
eye tendencies plans
Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.
long useless seems
Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.
thinking people done
I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.
essence people done
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.
way flaws being-pretty
While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.
mean steps may
You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.
jobs real life-and-death
Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.
bars tasks common
The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.
assessment perfection tasks
Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.
smart cookies
Voltaire was a smart cookie.
book school boys
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?