prioritization on S Anand

A sense of proportion

Fri, 14 May 2010 08:44:30 +0000

So the problem is, a lot of business managers and especially business owners, they have no sense of probability. They can’t fathom that concept. So They treat the probability of 1 to 10 trillion as the same as a 1 to a 100. And like, “We’ve got to deal with this 1 to a trillion probability, because, what if it happens?”

No! Doesn’t matter! I mean, don’t care.

So as soon as that sense of probability spreads, that people can treat that reasonably, I think all this nonsense just goes away.

This lack of proportion, sadly, is at the heart of my every day problems. (Just watch the video!)

Comments

elbin 14 May 2010 5:49 pm: Money matters!

Paul Graham on procrastination

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Good and bad procrastination by Paul Graham.

The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad?

Jugglezine

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Jugglezine: How to find the time to do anything (not everything!)

On a purely practical level, however, the reason we can’t find time for that one thing we’ve always wanted to do is that we don’t set aside time for it.

Logging how much time things take for two weeks will transform you, because if you know and acknowledge in advance how long something will take, then you can make wise decisions about where to spend your time