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Robert Samuelson is a long time multiple award-winning columnist for the Washington Post.

He writes on economics and he's forgotten more numbers and

statistics than most of us will ever know. He's a valuable observer of economics precisely because of the way he always digs a little deeper.

He goes beneath the numbers to understand what they mean.

He wants to know not just how things work, but how people work.

So today we turn to Robert Samuelson for advice on the subject of deadlines,

why they're important and how to use them.

Most of us hate deadlines because of the pressure they produce.

Who hasn't complained about a deadline at some point?

Or ignored it, or begged to get out of it,

or stayed up late to meet it. Deadlines seem, well, unfair.

Arbitrary. A needless obligation in an already jam-packed schedule. But Samuelson knows better. Deadlines are

essential he says because work can be endlessly elastic. Nothing would ever

get done without deadlines.

He goes on to say,

if this column were not due today,

I'd be writing it tomorrow, and the next day,

and the next, I would write it forever,

because there would be forever to write it. He concludes by saying

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