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How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson

TEDx Talks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Productivity & self-improvementPsychology & human behavior

What it is

Stephen Duneier describes a decision-making approach that took him from struggling with simple tasks to achieving ambitious goals. The talk centers on breaking goals into small marginal adjustments.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people recommend it for its simple, powerful idea of marginal adjustments and its usefulness for tackling big projects.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “The idea of marginal adjustment is both simple and powerful.”

    Marginal adjustment is a simple and powerful idea for achieving goals.

    hieu, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: To read books again, read one page every day”

  2. “it seems it doesn't matter what they are if you devote yourself fully to them.”

    Random-looking goals work if you devote yourself fully; new paradigm.

    kowdermeister, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?”

  3. “This video on youtube is pretty cool on the subject of big projects”

    Pretty cool talk on tackling big projects.

    sharemywin, 2023-06 · Recommendation · in “My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects – Mitchell Hashimoto”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: goals, decision making, marginal adjustment, productivity, tedx

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