What is priority?

Often, employers advise careless subordinates to prioritize and make choices. Advice is not always beneficial, because not everyone understands that priority means choosing a primary, primary goal.

First among equals

Priority is a certain advantage, primacy in actions, among other things being equal. Even the word priority is derived from the Latin "prior" and has the meaning of senior. Priority allows you to choose the direction of movement on the road, be the first to cross the intersection, get a patent for an exclusive type of activity, become an official author of an unpublished work or an unrevealed work of art.

goal

In the context of a single person, the life priority is what he devotes the greatest amount of time to, which is valuable to him and determines the whole future lifestyle. Family, hobby, career building can become priority. Such priorities, sometimes, make us give up a lot to achieve the desired goal.

Priority allows you to enroll a child in a selected kindergarten, enroll in a university, take a coupon for an appointment with a specialist using your right to benefits, more points, or an earlier application for the provision of services, respectively.

There are priorities for applications for an invention or other intellectual property, which consists in the filing of official applications with the federal authorities earlier than other participants in the race. There are priorities of laws, as well as priorities of computer programs related to the order of their download and further work.