Everything interesting begins in the “unimportant and not urgent” quadrant. Eliminating it is the dumbest thing you can do and the worst advice Covey gave.
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And no you can’t hack it via NPV of future importance as “small seeds.” If you predict even uncertain and ambiguous future importance, it fuzzily belongs in important quadrants.
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Gotta do the true blind dabbling. It’s an act of faith. Belief in invisible serendipity of the universe.
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If it is seeds, it is of the magic beans variety in jack and the beanstalk. You’re not betting on rational expectations of future returns but making things interestingly weird in ways that might subvert your notions of value (importance) altogether. Static importance is religion.
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I've always thought that eliminating the "urgent" side is the whole point of living a good life?
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It is not bad. Good baseline mediocre common sense defaults for the most part.
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I'm reading Why Greatness Cannot be Planned at the moment by .
You are spot on. Ken's 2 slots on the are mind blowing on this.
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