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How people prioritize their time/What dictates what people do

In my experience pain is the primary factor in how people intuitively prioritize. By that I mean what people usually spend their time on is what they find or expect to be the most painful if not adressed.

A persons expectation of pain can come from past experience, or from newly aquired insight and belief into what could turn problematic in the not too distant future.

Depending on how prone someone is towards execution vs planning, some people almost instantly start _doing_ the second they realize what their top priority should be. That can prove problematic in the context of cooperation.

People who just start doing risk don't taking the following into account:

• A proper and shared understanding of the problem
• The resources needed to solve the problem (and other priorities competing for those same resources)

Examples

Identify a task or a project (vs sending an email).

The amount context people provide automatically vary greatly depending on their experience with and intuitition for sharing context.