The Power of Short Bursts

The writer talks about the power of working in very short bursts and then making yourself stop when the time is up. He also finds that anything that really, really narrows the time horizon of what he's trying to do is incredibly powerful. And if you do that for a few days, it becomes really exciting to get back to the work, right? You execute some sort of judo move on your motivation because instead of staying with it until you're played out, build it up into something that you fear the next day.

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