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title: "The right tool is just an excuse"
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date: 2021-03-19
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draft: true
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tags: ["blabla","life","misc","productivity"]
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series: [""]
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## Now let's be honest
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How often does it happen that you think the lack of a tool, a program or whatever in order to make yourself aware of what you set out to do
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to hold. When I think back to the time when I started programming again, I could still pull my hair out now. It's unbelievable
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how much time you can spend with the question "Which editor is the best for programming?". The point is this: when you spend your time doing it yourself
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Hours and days spent trying to find the best editor the answer is probably: "None at all".
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The situation described above exists in countless variations. It doesn't matter whether you are a photographer, craftsman or tax advisor. Everyone knows that
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probably too good.
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It's like wanting to learn to play the guitar and first of all you buy the best and most expensive guitar that money can find. But the point is
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simply the fact that it really doesn't help you at all. The guitar doesn't make you a rock star, the 500 megapixel camera doesn't make you a rock star
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Photographers.
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## The comfort zone is the problem
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When we try to do something difficult, new, or both, our brains seem particularly creative. The lack of a specific tool as
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Reason to not start with something is just one of many excuses. As far as I've seen, we tend to make such excuses as soon as we do
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Leave the safe ground of our comfort zone.
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## You have to outsmart yourself
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The problem is, our brains are so good at making these excuses that we sometimes don't notice them until hours later. A perfect solution
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I haven't found it yet, but a mission could actually be good planning combined with a healthy dose of stubbornness.
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I used the method around the time I started doing regular exercise again. Basically you have to create a state where there is no either or
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gives. It just has to be perfectly clear that exactly what you set out to do has to happen now.
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It is important that you have decided beforehand what to do at this moment. In other words, it's about planning. If you already have decided yesterday
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what to do now things seem a lot easier. It's already decided ... right?
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now we made XYZ. End of the announcement ".
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