{"id":169,"date":"2020-10-08T03:03:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T03:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jal.mybluehost.me\/\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:26:20","slug":"monkey-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/monkey-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When tackling tough problems, there might be an impetus to start with the \u201clow hanging fruit\u201d or to go after the \u201cquick wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It might feel good and build confidence to accomplish the easy things first. It might look like you\u2019re making progress, but looks can be deceiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you don\u2019t solve the hardest part of the problem, accomplishing the easy parts might not matter. Don\u2019t squander all your resources on the easy stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Do the hard part first. Then breeze through the easy bits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">As Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X, says, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/astro-teller-on-working-hardest-part-of-breakthroughs-first\/2F41FB6C-D566-4911-AB91-F5533D779A82.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">monkey first<\/span><\/a>.\u201d If your project aims to have a monkey recite Shakespeare while perched atop a pedestal, it\u2019s a mistake to build the pedestal first and leave until later the tough problem of training the monkey to speak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Train the monkey first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">When tackling tough problems, there might be an impetus to start with the \u201clow hanging fruit\u201d or going after the \u201cquick wins.\u201d Instead, put the monkey first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}