Mini Blog Post 3: Become a person who Actually Does Things — Neel Nanda
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On overcoming procrastination and paralysis, and making it part of your identity that you take opportunity
Mini Blog Post 3: Become a person who Actually Does Things Jun 12 Written By Neel Nanda There are two kinds of people in the world: People who actually do things, and people who don’t. Now I’ve got the unnecessarily provocative opening line out of the way, what do I actually mean by this? To achieve a goal, this breaks down into two parts: figure out what needs to be done, and actually do it. As stated, this sounds completely trivial. But I think there’s a really important and non-obvious point in here. Some part of me is convinced that the main bottleneck for achieving my goals is being smart
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