"What you end up with is, it's not intimidating at all. You have to take leg o one, lego two, leg o three," he says. "You break things down to a level that they can't possibly be intimidated."
Cranking out work in one big push or digesting information in one big gulp requires a lot of motivation and self-discipline, which are in scarce supply. By breaking down your work into a series of small, “intermediate packets,” you can make consistent progress while building up a reserve of useful knowledge. With these packets at your disposal, you’ll have many more options for how to combine and remix them into new things in the future.