Superego choices

From How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent by Adaobi.  

The headline tips follow.  Click through for the interesting discussion behind the suggestions.

Be audacious. 

Do grunt work. 

Do the boring things.

Learn undefined skills. 

Work hard. 

Bring a sense of urgency & move fast. 

Don’t let things be scheduled to be discussed in the next meeting. 

If you can get something done faster, or produce more per unit of time, then do it. 

Keep things stupid simple & focused. 

Improve things. 

Ask your naive questions. 

Simplify things. 

Follow up. 

Show up during the hard times. 

Figure out the first step. 

Finish things. 

All good points and easy to comprehend.  Doing?  Well that's also pretty easy but doing it consistently can sometimes be a challenge.  Making all these things an unconscious habit has huge dividends but takes work.

I will add to the "Show up during the hard times" a further observation.  There is nothing like hard times to bring people together.  Sure, they are . . . hard, but working collaboratively to muscle through to achieve a shared goal?  Maybe you won't all be best friends but you will all be bound together in a reasonably awesome fashion.  

Some of my better long term friendships were people I once, for one reason or another, either disliked or avoided.  But once we delivered great outcomes from difficult projects, there was at least mutual respect and some of them became good friends for a lifetime.