taryneast comments on The trouble with teamwork - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taryneast 24 March 2011 08:14:13PM 2 points [-]

Yep, thats a good summation.

I can say that I personally do not know a single person of whom proactivity comes naturally. Everybody that I know that has learned it... has had it metaphorically beaten into them - either through a parent (lots of women learn this skill from their mothers) or through their own personal failures (mainly through crying over lost opportunities only spotted in hindsight...).

If you can get started on learning this skill early... I predict that it will be of wide-ranging benefit to you in the future :)

Comment author: Swimmer963 24 March 2011 08:19:57PM 1 point [-]

I predict that my 2-and-a-bit remaining years of nursing school will hammer it pretty deep. And I do try to be proactive...or at least slightly more so than my classmates, so that my teachers think I am!

Comment author: taryneast 24 March 2011 08:33:04PM 0 points [-]

And I do try to be proactive

AFAICT that's the essence of getting better at this one. So keep doing that :)