[roenxi]

> One of the most valuable life lessons is you can't get anyone else to care about what you want them to care about basically ever.

And, just to echo this, it is quite common to see people go down in flames because of issues they knew about, were told about repeatedly and simply didn't (couldn't?) take an interest in. A situation being important isn't normally enough to get people to change their methods. They generally just do what they always do come hell or high water.

A lot of people seem to struggle with this and put it down to stupidity - which is correct, but it is more useful to see that one of the mechanisms is people not being able to do things differently based on how urgent circumstances outside their immediate concerns are.

[gwervc]

Urgency isn't a good metric in the corporate world because basically everything is called urgent all the time (spoiler: most of the time it's not).

[pjc50]

Hence the urgent/important matrix: https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/eisenhower-matrix