I got a call from a friend of a friend in need of a good home remodel. In the middle of the conversation she told me that she had been working with her contractor for just under a year, and that he had made several mistakes and had made her job a lot harder. “Oh,” she said, “they’ll take care of it.
It can seem like the worst thing that can happen to a homeowner, and it can seem that good contractors never fail. But I’ve had a contractor who was super nice, and he was really good at his job. He made mistakes and missed deadlines, but that’s not the point. The point is that he didn’t make the job too difficult.
The point is that there is a lot of bad workmanship in construction. It doesn’t have to be that way. What if you had a contractor who could not only see the job from a higher vantage point, but also was willing to work hard at it? As long as you are willing to work hard, and as long as you are willing to fix any mistakes that you can find, you will have the upper hand on the job.
The problem is that a lot of contractors don’t have the ability to work hard. It’s not enough to work hard and fix any mistakes. It requires a lot of hard work to work hard that can’t be done by one person. Because if it’s not that hard, then the job isnt that hard.
I have seen many people that have a lot of work on their hands, but dont have the ability to work hard. They have the luxury of being able to do hard work, but lack the capacity to do anything else. So they end up with more work to do, but less ability to do hard work. Thats not what an ideal contractor is.
I think it’s very important to remember that not all hard work is equal. There’s nothing wrong with procrastinating on hard work and then taking it to the “real” world when ready. This mentality is a bit like trying to hit a baseball with a tennis racket. You probably won’t be able to make a hit off the tee, but hitting the ball all the way to the fence with your hand is pretty cool.
If you want your hard work to come through into the real world, you need to have the will power to wait for it. And the reason you need to be self-aware is that if you don’t have that self-awareness, you probably won’t have the will power to wait for it. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why it’s important to have self-awareness. We’ll cover those in the next chapter.
It turns out that the reason why it’s important to have self-awareness is that if you dont have self-awareness, you probably wont have the will power to wait for it. Theres a whole bunch of reasons why it’s important to have self-awareness. Well cover those in the next chapter.
The last time I heard that phrase the first time was in a documentary about how many times people died in a single episode of The West Wing. It was also used to say that if you don’t have self-awareness, then you probably don’t have the will power to wait for it.
I don’t think the world is in a time loop, though. I think self-awareness is an important, valuable thing for everyone, particularly the most intelligent ones. Self-awareness is key to being able to change the way you think about the world around you.