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Posted by Dellu
Sep 3, 2020 at 04:57 PM
“The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.”, Carl Newport in the Deep work.
What do you think of this quote guys?
Posted by Argonsnorts
Sep 4, 2020 at 06:14 AM
Dellu wrote:
> Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life.
I get stuck on step one.
Posted by Gorski
Sep 4, 2020 at 04:57 PM
> I get stuck on step one.
This.
Posted by Skywatcher
Sep 4, 2020 at 05:36 PM
It’s the other way round for me : I adopt various tools hoping they’ll help me “ Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in my professional and personal life”
:-))
Posted by jaslar
Sep 5, 2020 at 12:16 AM
I think that’s true for anyone who wants to effect change in their lives. If you can’t quite get a handle on that, you pour your energy into the abstracted process as represented by software, hoping to work your way BACK to the core issue.
Skywatcher wrote:
>It’s the other way round for me : I adopt various tools hoping
>they’ll help me “ Identify the core factors that determine
>success and happiness in my professional and personal life”
>:-))