How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2018–2023.
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Stephen Duneier describes a decision-making approach that took him from struggling with simple tasks to achieving ambitious goals. The talk centers on breaking goals into small marginal adjustments.
HN people recommend it for its simple, powerful idea of marginal adjustments and its usefulness for tackling big projects.
“The idea of marginal adjustment is both simple and powerful.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
This video on youtube is pretty cool on the subject of big projects: How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson ▶ this video
in “My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects – Mitchell Hashimoto” · View on HN
That should be the real question. All else is just a consequence of being motivated enough to achieve that particular goal. You are probably fine already, but if you feel that you want more, I would suggest to get some inspiration from a new paradigm you never did before. I've seen this lately, and while he did come up with rather random looking goals, it seems it doesn't matter what they are if you devote yourself fully to them. ▶ this video
in “Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?” · View on HN
It works for me, too. The inspiration was from this TED talk: ▶ this video . The idea of marginal adjustment is both simple and powerful.
in “Show HN: To read books again, read one page every day” · View on HN