You want to learn as much as you possibly can before you actually do the task, but you end up wasting time preparing yourself instead of just trying to do it.

在真正开始学习之前，你想尽可能地多学点，但往往你还没开始努力尝试，这一切就在你浪费时间准备好自己中结束了。

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Getting someone else, someone who is perhaps better, more efficient or better equipped to do a task, frees you up to do other things that are a better fit for you in that moment.

把一些任务让给那些更优秀的，更有效率的，或者更适合的人去做，那你就有时间去做更适合你做到事情了。

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You also need to set up the task in such a way that you receive direct and immediate feedback;

此外，你还必须以能够直接并即时收到反馈的方式设定任务；

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"You task airlines to come up with solutions, and they will come up with solutions, " says David Bourne, a Boeing 747 captain and director of the airline division at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents workers at more than 20 U.S. passenger carriers.

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Large numbers of people with those kinds of characteristics, we have found, can be infinitely more powerful than just an executive committee or the kind of task forces that you see set up all the time when people are trying to make some kind of change.

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Put them on your computer screen and smart devices, carry them in your notebook, or set up task reminders to ping you.

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