What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

Can be "trade" or in real life some hack you think you missed out on or didn't click for you until late.

Could be something similar to this

Life will not be clean, smooth and according to plan. Learn how to deal with things getting messy and derailed, and to accept that you "lost your streak" or whatever. Tomorrow is a new day, it is always ok to start over.

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Temporary solutions will become permanent solutions unless you explicitly hold yourself to fixing it within a certain time window because it becomes harder the longer time has passed.

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For me it's just understanding the power of repeating actions. If that's just when it comes to exercise or work. Doing the same thing over and over builds routine but also help you stick at it.

If I train for 1000 days straight what will be the outcome. Vs if I eat cake for 1000 days straight what will be the outcome.

I play the long game always. In life. In work.

Todays loss or failure in work does not matter. It's reaching the final goal in 5-10-15 years or longer that's all that matters.

I learned late in life that friends are not always friends, it is nice to be nice to people, just never forget that people are not nice all the times in the same way even if you might think so. Lesson learned the hard way.

Dopious said:

I learned late in life that friends are not always friends, it is nice to be nice to people, just never forget that people are not nice all the times in the same way even if you might think so. Lesson learned the hard way.

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Very true.

There are friends and there are friendly people. That's difference if you ask me

Patience. I used to get very impatient with projects and hop to the next one I had planned instead of giving the current one more time to succeed.

Zwielicht said:

Patience. I used to get very impatient with projects and hop to the next one I had planned instead of giving the current one more time to succeed.

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Ditto plus consistency and perseverance

Learn one trade and learn it really, really well. The temptation to earn quick money and quick gains is always there, either online or in perosn but I find as far as honing any expertise goes, better to be a specilaist at one thing rather than do a half-assed job at half a dozen or so different things. I think IMer's in particular are pretty notorious for attmepting to take on too many scarcely related things on at once.