{"id":944133,"date":"2025-07-05T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944133"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:24:59","slug":"when-microsoft-founder-bill-gates-said-this-bad-habit-he-developed-at-harvard-was-hard-to-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/when-microsoft-founder-bill-gates-said-this-bad-habit-he-developed-at-harvard-was-hard-to-break\/","title":{"rendered":"When Microsoft founder Bill Gates said this bad habit he developed at Harvard was hard to break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates admitted that procrastination was one of the bad habits he had to overcome during the early years of his years. Speaking at a 2005 Q&amp;A session alongside investor Warren Buffett at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Gates told students that he developed this habit while studying at Harvard University. I liked to show people that I didn\u2019t do any work, and that I didn\u2019t go to classes and I didn\u2019t care,\u201d he then said. Gates added that he would get serious about exams at the last minute, sometimes just two days before the test. \u201cPeople thought that was funny,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was my positioning: the guy who did nothing until the last minute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates admitted that procrastination was one of the bad habits he had to overcome during the early years of his years. Speaking at a 2005 Q&amp;A session alongside investor Warren Buffett at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Gates told students that he developed this habit while studying at Harvard University. I liked to show people that I didn\u2019t do any work, and that I didn\u2019t go to classes and I didn\u2019t care,\u201d he then said. Gates added that he would get serious about exams at the last minute, sometimes just two days before the test. \u201cPeople thought that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}