Added Russian subtitles, hope they'll be helpful for Russian-speaking audience. Добавил русские субтитры, переводил близко к оригинальному тексту, но не дословно, старался передать основную мысль. Если у кого-то из русскоговорящих подписчиков есть замечания по субтитрам, напишите мне пожалуйста. Буду стараться переводить видео Гэри и в дальнейшем, и Ваши замечания помогут мне улучшить будущие переводы.
This matrix reminds me of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People which clarifies habit three about First things first which one to decide as you point out it’s important.
Thank you for your explanation. I'm a second year Law student at university. I would like to be more productive this semester so I've been searching about time management skills on RU-vid and that's how I found your video here. But I have a few questions for this video and I hope you will give me the answer. Q1:Did you mean "Bailing" task fall into "Important and urgent" quadrant while "Repair the hole" task fall into "Important but not urgent" quadrant? Q2: Could you please tell me what you meant at 5:03, "The important thing is being held to ransom by the important and urgent thing"? Q3: And why did you say the "Bailing" task is an "Urgent" alone as if the bailing task wasn't important at 5:40? Q4: Could you please tell me what you meant at 5:59, "The important task that was the cure, the antidote for the urgent and important task"? Q5: And, please let me know, what made you think "Important & not urgent" is the most powerful quadrant at 6:07? Because, I thought the "Important & urgent" quadrant was the most powerful because, as long as I know, we do it first. Thanks in advance!
Great questions one and all: Q1 - Yes: bailing is important and urgent; repairing is important but not urgent. Q2 - The underlying problem is the hole in the boat. BAILING is treating the symptom ( = the water), while FIXING the hole is treating the cause ( = the hole). So I mean that the act of BAILING is getting in the way of the act of FIXING. Or: we're so busy treating the SYMPTOM, there's no time for applying the CURE. Q3 - Perhaps a mistake: Bailing is both important AND urgent. Q4 - See my answer to Q2. Q5 - This is the key to entire thing: When most people come across the Eisenhower for the first time, it's "obvious" to them that "urgent AND important" is the most powerful quadrant. But that's not the case. As you said, if something is important AND urgent, we have no choice but to act, and to act now. And many people get a thrill from constant fire-fighting: every day, they get to "save the day". To be the hero. Such people would resent questions such as "Why did it happen in the first place?". Preventing fires before they occur, that's the secret here. And I think you know which quadrant that lives in... right?
