Re:How to Do Hard Things
by mdp2021 on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:55PM
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> calls “eating the frog”
Popularized by Brian Tracy with the book "Eat that Frog - Stop procrastinating and get more done in less time",
the idea is attributed to Mark Twain there, but was actually recorded by Nicolas Chamfort: "One should eat a frog every morning, to find the rest of the day less disgusting, if you have to spend it in the world". The translation from the French tradition of the "nausea" to pragmatist Union America, where it came to mean "do the hardest first as a strategy", fits.
Popularized by Brian Tracy with the book "Eat that Frog - Stop procrastinating and get more done in less time",
the idea is attributed to Mark Twain there, but was actually recorded by Nicolas Chamfort: "One should eat a frog every morning, to find the rest of the day less disgusting, if you have to spend it in the world". The translation from the French tradition of the "nausea" to pragmatist Union America, where it came to mean "do the hardest first as a strategy", fits.