I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The way I did it, every job was A+.
One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.
I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.
I do my job in Type O Negative.
I always work from an outline.
I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.