Impatience (with process! Never with people) will have you throw something in the freezer rather than the fridge to cool it faster. Time-misers all wield impatience. You want to get more done? At some point, you might discover that Impatience might be for you.
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Dissatisfaction — my favorite thing about dissatisfaction is that it is the beacon of that which needs improvement. The only thing I find lacking about dissatisfaction is its insufficiency — that one cannot fix what needs fixing with dissatisfaction alone!
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Laziness — I aspire to be lazy in the way that the people I know who are extremely effective are frequently surprisingly lazy. A high barrier to action means it's often *really* worth it when you move.
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A combination of these three things, held correctly, can actually be a tremendously powerful force for building, change, and general improvement (my lense is tech and engineering obv). As with all virtues, I am of course far behind where I think the best ones are on these points.
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Larry Wall agreed with you at least on two. http://threevirtues.com/
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Came here to say this. Then I was going to grump about how I wish perl had been popular for longer! Another gem from the perl-philosophy archives: Easy Things Should Be Easy; Hard Things Should Be Possible
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one of my first seminars as a young sales guy the speaker did for quadrants. Lazy, hard working, stupid, smart. Best combo, lazy and smart (solved problems fast to be able to slack). Worst, stupid and hard working (creating tons of problems for others).
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