战胜拖延-会放弃(8)

 The ways successful people defeat procrastination¹.

 

成功人士战胜拖延的方法。

 

They give up.

 

他们会放弃

 

 

Just because you already poured hours into a project, doesn't mean you need to finish it. This is known as the "sunk cost fallacy." The "sunk cost fallacy" affects gamblers, investors², and even procrastinators. Sometimes, a project just isn't worth burning more hours over,and you ultimately need to figure out if it's time to quit.

 

Take a step back and figure out the reason you're procrastinating³ on the project or task. Is it because it's actually not that important, or doesn't move you closer to your big picture goal?

 

Subtraction⁴, instead of addition, is efficient and productive. Maybe you need to focus on doing fewer things. Maybe this project you’re procrastinating on is actually making you much less productive and needs to be dropped.

 

 

1 procrastination   

n.拖延，耽搁

参考例句：

• Procrastination is the father of failure. 因循是失败的根源。
• Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。

2 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

3 procrastinating   

拖延，耽搁( procrastinate的现在分词 )； 拖拉

参考例句：

• Begin while others are procrastinating. Save while others are wasting. 当别人拖延时你开始。当别人浪费时你节约。
• Before adjourning, councillors must stop procrastinating and revisit this controversial issue. 在休会之前，参议员必须停止拖延，重新讨论这个引起争议的问题。

4 subtraction   

n.减法，减去

参考例句：

• We do addition and subtraction in arithmetic.在算术里,我们作加减运算。
• They made a subtraction of 50 dollars from my salary.他们从我的薪水里扣除了五十美元。