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Is "sandbagging" the key to success in life?
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:34 pm
According to Wikipedia, "Sandbagging in golf is deliberately playing below one's actual ability in order to fool opponents into accepting higher stakes bets."
The older I get, the more I think that this is a really important skill to have.
Give a customer what they want a week early, and that's what they'll expect from then on. This expectation will easily outlive their gratitude.
Give your girlfriend a ring, and a baby, and a house, and she'll complain that the baby wants Fritos instead of her nasty Mackerel Florentine and the countertops aren't quartz.
Buy your kid a Mustang and he'll ask for a Corvette. It would've been easier to give him a Toyota Yaris and then deal with his request for a Mustang.
Maybe it's better to just guard whatever you are able to provide jealously. Dole that shite out like Stalin handing out stale crackers.
One variation of what I am saying is, "give them an inch and they'll take a mile." Better to give them a centimeter and act like you really don't even have that.
The older I get, the more I think that this is a really important skill to have.
Give a customer what they want a week early, and that's what they'll expect from then on. This expectation will easily outlive their gratitude.
Give your girlfriend a ring, and a baby, and a house, and she'll complain that the baby wants Fritos instead of her nasty Mackerel Florentine and the countertops aren't quartz.
Buy your kid a Mustang and he'll ask for a Corvette. It would've been easier to give him a Toyota Yaris and then deal with his request for a Mustang.
Maybe it's better to just guard whatever you are able to provide jealously. Dole that shite out like Stalin handing out stale crackers.
One variation of what I am saying is, "give them an inch and they'll take a mile." Better to give them a centimeter and act like you really don't even have that.
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Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:36 pm to USMEagles
When the reality you're no longer pleasing her sinks in...
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:36 pm to USMEagles
You sand bagging son of a bitch!
This post was edited on 4/7/21 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:38 pm to USMEagles
Perception management is every bit as important as the job you do
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:41 pm to USMEagles
This strategy could work with a kid, but not with a wife.
You’re underestimating women’s ability to sniff out exactly how much you’re making. They can tell the difference between cheap and broke.
You’re underestimating women’s ability to sniff out exactly how much you’re making. They can tell the difference between cheap and broke.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:41 pm to USMEagles
Define success first.
Choose to follow Jesus and you’ll bump your way down a road filled with potholes but you’ll never be in fear and always be content. Who cares about what others think? Play the long game. Making others happy never works. Make God proud, the rest will work itself out.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:42 pm to USMEagles
Be good at your job, but not so good that you can't be promoted.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:42 pm to USMEagles
In my experience there is a fine line between sand bagging and just being good for nothing
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:46 pm to USMEagles
I was reading a discussion about using scripts to automate work resulting in free time yet still delivering early. They called it goldbricking.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:47 pm to CourtJesster
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In my experience there is a fine line between sand bagging and just being good for nothing
Did you make an account just to post that
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:47 pm to wheelr
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I was reading a discussion about using scripts to automate work resulting in free time yet still delivering early. They called it goldbricking.
Learning to Code by Jeffrey Lebowski
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:48 pm to USMEagles
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give her an inch
Ok so this is a good thing? My wife should be pleased right?
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:49 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Learning to Code by Jeffrey Lebowski
Totally not why I'm trying to learn Python right now.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:49 pm to USMEagles
Hold back while I pass you by, doesn't matter what you know its what they think I know.
But hey, I have your back. Will work on your vacation time when I get a minute.
But hey, I have your back. Will work on your vacation time when I get a minute.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:49 pm to Ben Hur
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You’re underestimating women’s ability to sniff out exactly how much you’re making. They can tell the difference between cheap and broke.
Ehhhh I'm not so sure.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 10:49 pm to USMEagles
Posted on 4/7/21 at 11:35 pm to tigertrueAU
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Choose to follow Jesus and you’ll bump your way down a road filled with potholes but you’ll never be in fear and always be content. Who cares about what others think? Play the long game. Making others happy never works. Make God proud, the rest will work itself out.
I think that's as good an answer as any. There are times when you have to let go and forward your problems to God. I don't know what He looks like or even if He exists for sure- that's why it's called faith and we should all remember that.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 6:10 am to USMEagles
having a vagina is the key to life.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 6:26 am to USMEagles
Under promise
Over deliver
ETA
“Evil, when can you that done”
“Best I may be able to do is three months”
“Ok”
One month later
“ how did you get that done in only a month“
“ we move some things around Bumped you in front of some other projects and made some miracles happen“
“ wow you and your team are awesome let’s get you in line for that promotion“
Over deliver
ETA
“Evil, when can you that done”
“Best I may be able to do is three months”
“Ok”
One month later
“ how did you get that done in only a month“
“ we move some things around Bumped you in front of some other projects and made some miracles happen“
“ wow you and your team are awesome let’s get you in line for that promotion“
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 6:29 am
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