Mini Blog Post 6 Stop Pressing the Try Harder Button-readwise
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- Author: Neel Nanda
- Full Title: Mini Blog Post 6: Stop Pressing the Try Harder Button
- Category: #articles
- URL: Mini Blog Post 6: Stop Pressing the Try Harder Button
Highlights
- Do it now, not later. Set a 5 minute timer, and see if you can finish the task. Or at least make a start! (View Highlight)
- You can get a surprising amount done in 5 minutes! (Say, writing a third of a blog post) (View Highlight)
- Often the bottleneck is that getting started takes a bit of energy. Doing something for 5 minutes can take much less energy, and I find that timers help me focus a lot (View Highlight)
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Metadata
- Author: Neel Nanda
- Full Title: Mini Blog Post 6: Stop pressing the Try Harder button
- Category: #articles
- URL: Mini Blog Post 6: Stop pressing the Try Harder button
Highlights
- Do it now, not later. Set a 5 minute timer, and see if you can finish the task. Or at least make a start! (View Highlight)
- You can get a surprising amount done in 5 minutes! (Say, writing a third of a blog post) (View Highlight)
- Often the bottleneck is that getting started takes a bit of energy. Doing something for 5 minutes can take much less energy, and I find that timers help me focus a lot (View Highlight)