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For most of us, we have warmer feelings for the projects we worked on where everything seemed to go wrong.
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Sometimes hitting the midpoint – of a project, a semester, a life – numbs our interest and stalls our progress.
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…if you’re feeling stuck in the middle of a project, picture one person who’ll benefit from your efforts. Dedicating your work to that person will deepen your dedication to your task.
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Doing a few important things well is far more likely to propel you out of the slump than a dozen half-assed and half-finished projects are.
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Experiments… show that managers who took responsibility for bad events like pay freezes and failed projects were seen as more powerful, competent, and likable than those who denied responsibility.
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In large part, we are what we do, and our identity is closely connected with whatever we’re focused on, including our careers, relationships, projects, and hobbies. When we quit any of those things, we have to deal with the prospect of quitting part of our identity. And that is painful.
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Any project or challenging hobby that we’re working on that we want to see through to completion would benefit from more gamelike feedback and ambient support.
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…the UX designer sits at the intersection of customer needs, business needs, and the feasibility of meeting them on any given project.
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The ability to identify the simply core needs of a project or mission does usually demand intellectual acuity.
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Investing your time wisely requires that you prioritize what you do. If you don’t, leeches in the form of disagreeable people and insignificant projects will rob you of your time.
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