Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability. John Perry More Quotes by John Perry More Quotes From John Perry The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial? John Perry boys book school Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum. John Perry procrastinating tendencies eye Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar. John Perry assessment degrees perfection The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower. John Perry bars tasks common Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators. John Perry life-and-death real jobs You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive. John Perry steps may mean While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive. John Perry being-pretty flaws way The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on. John Perry done essence people I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway. John Perry done people thinking Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless. John Perry long-time useless long Voltaire was a smart cookie. John Perry cookies smart One example is a genetic variant in CADM2, a gene that controls brain cell connections and brain activity, which we found was associated with a greater likelihood of having a risk-taking personality, and with an earlier age at first sexual intercourse and higher lifetime number of children. John Perry health There are hundreds of factors that determine your future health and there are millions of things that influence birth weight [and] height. This is one incremental factor of many that contribute to this, keep in mind it is complicated, but it is an interesting piece of the jigsaw puzzle of biology. John Perry health-news You'll notice these optimum months coincide with when we have the most sunlight in the UK. John Perry health-news
