Monday, November 3, 2014

Being busy

"Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action."

– Tim Ferriss

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Things" rarely make a difference. People almost always do. Do not make the mistake of neglecting your Sailors; they make the difference.

Anonymous said...

"Being busy is a form of mental laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action" - foul!

Cute sound bite. Very Trollish.

Justification/argument required prior to any serious consideration.

Anonymous said...

I well recall the very worst CO I ever had calling me into his cabin and inviting me to understand that if I just took care of the small stuff, the large things would take of themselves.

I was at 27% manning at the time undergoing a Diesel Inspection, realigning two Main Propulsion diesels and one generator when that cretin said that to me.

If there is one thing you guys can take away from your "being busy meme", take it from a SWO or a nuke, you have absolutely no credibility with us at all an you just said so.

Of course, this comes before the days of 10th Fleet. Fail to Sail was career suicide for sailors back before then.

Anonymous said...

Oh screw it!

I'm rolling in on re-attack.

THAT IS THE STUPIDEST THING ANY MORON CAN SAY ABOUT THE REAL NAVY WHICH ENGAGES NOW ON 8 TO 9 MONTH DEPLOYMENTS.

I can grant him some room for being a stupid idiot but NOBODY on those ships or squadrons signed up to be "BUSY". They got screwed.

They have to be "BUSY" because they have missions to meet which require the equipment to be ready to deploy.

That tim dude is one really stupid moron. He must be one of the elite IT or whatever y'all call yourselves these days that never deploy and never actually engage the enemy.

Anonymous said...

You guys couldn't take the ten seconds and google the originator of this quote and find out he has nothing to do with the IW/CT community? Definitely disagree with his comment but talk about overreacting. Lol

Anonymous said...

For greater understanding, read his book. Then you'll get his point. It is a valid one.

Anonymous said...

I blame Lambert