Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Time and Success

This quote appeared on my Google homepage today. I have found it often true:

"There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."
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  • 5 comments
the_s_guy

the_s_guy

December 23 2009, 06:35:34 UTC 11 years ago

Conversely, there's those tasks which it's much more fun to be eternally doing rather than actually finishing, and the ones which are done in a blaze of hurry in order to get them out of the way.

Not to mention, I suppose, those distasteful tasks which one would prefer to be over, but which far too much time is allocated to because of ongoing procrastination, poking at it instead of _doing_ it, and doing it piecemeal interspersed with shampooing the terrapin.
siege

siege

December 23 2009, 08:36:30 UTC 11 years ago

I find that this relationship generally works in both directions.
natf

natf

December 24 2009, 17:29:49 UTC 11 years ago

That could be considered true for me if "willing" ≡ "lucky enough to find enough spoons to even contemplate being able" as in:

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're lucky enough to find enough spoons to even contemplate being able to spend on it.

… although the English is not perfect in my version.
ysabetwordsmith

Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

December 24 2009, 17:46:19 UTC 11 years ago

I can relate. Perhaps "willing and able" would work? To cover people who have the energy, but whose time is not under their own control?
natf

Re: Hmm...

natf

December 25 2009, 00:15:22 UTC 11 years ago Edited:  December 25 2009, 00:16:03 UTC

Kinda. My time is my own but my energy and health are not always. I am always willing, however, in that I WANT to do the thing in question…