The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them...
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Overcoming overwhelming goals requires breaking them into smaller, manageable steps.
- In plain terms
- Break big problems into smaller ones to solve them.
- What can you take from it?
- Start with small steps when facing large challenges.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is the smallest step you can take today?
- How do you define difficult?
Another view
Some situations require holistic thinking rather than fragmentation.
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