Comments by "Michael Nurse" (@michaelnurse9089) on "5 Habits that Destroy Your Productivity" video.

  1. Luckily you haven't resorted to the worst habit of all, commenting on productivity videos on YouTube.
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  2. Editing often attracts the wrong audience - those who need to get back to the hustle. Those who are serious about working on themselves have time and patience and so will listen to the pauses as much as the words.
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  3. I learned the hard way at University that to beat the test focus on similar tests and ignore the source material. That said, I learned a literal TON of important things for life from studying the source material - it just wasn't useful for writing the test.
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  4. It various a lot depending on city size and industry as well.
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  5. 6. Commenting on productivity videos.
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  6. Those three skills work together. Some people learn 2d, then think they should switch to teaching karate only to decide a few years later they always wanted to play the stock exchange = disaster.
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  7. You need to be selective on your books. Find people you respect who are older than you, ask them what book had the biggest influence on them. Read it. Read it carefully again. Speak to them about it. Reread again a couple years later. Picking off the NT bestseller books is going to get you book that Joe Average likes to read half the first chapter of after two glasses of wine with dinner.
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  8. Fiction is great for exercising your ability to see the World through the eyes of others. It is bad for learning things that have a technical underpinning - Programming for Dummies will get you a 1000 miles further than reading Ready Player One.
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  9. They should be conscientious people. Helping that ambitious blowhard ahole get ahead is just asking to get 'scorpioned' - referring to the Russian folk tale of the frog and scorpion.
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