He describes the constant checking of visitors, clicks, mentions as "insecurity work" that we are doing to assure ourselves that we are doing OK, rather than moving forward into uncharted territories.

他把不断的检查参观者、滴答声描述为“工作”，我们做这些以确保我们自己做得很好，而不是向未知领域迈进一步。

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But I would rather be doing that, not knowing when my dreams will be realized than accept just doing what works.

我不知道何时我的梦想才能实现，但和去做那些“管用的事”相比，我更情愿去做前一件事。

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TPO5People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment doing things they like to do rather than doing things they should do.

人们花费太多时间做他们喜欢的事情，而不是应该做的事情，是否认同?。

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Last week, you'll be writing your second paper and I'd rather spend time on that than doing any outside reading.

最后一周，你们会写第二篇论文,我宁愿花时间在那上面,而不愿做一些课外阅读。

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and your co-worker continues to discuss how to do the work rather than actually doing the work,

但你的同事仍然在滔滔不绝地谈论如何着手工作而不实际地做，

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I then click on the shell, rather than hitting F5, try and run it and say, it's not doing what I thought I should do.

然后我点击了命令解释程序，而不是按F5，我运行了程序而它，并没有按照我认为的那样做。

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It states what a patient is capable of doing, rather than not doing, and has room to suggest modifications to their work.

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Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

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They are doing this in ways which they value rather than just doing what the providers expect them to do.

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