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59: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Cortex

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The Importance of Examples in a Book

I don't think is a book which really holds up anymore but one of the things I always find hilarious in that book is David Allen talks about the problems and projects that you have. So many of these things are like you need to set out some ideas and then just stick to them It's like dude just sticking to them is the hard part And what I absolutely love is in this ridiculous story where he talks about having his son mowing the lawn it is the oh there's once in the entire book where he explicitly acknowledged like doing something is hard because his kid promises to mow the lawn and then doesn't.

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