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I was looking for someone who laid it out like this. Breaking it down is a great tip, but sometimes you can think of the most fundamental thing you could do to
by katzgrau 6y ago
I was looking for someone who laid it out like this.
Breaking it down is a great tip, but sometimes you can think of the most fundamental thing you could do to constitute "started"
Got a long paper or email to write? Open your editor and write the intro. If you write any more than that it's a bonus.
Got an annoying feature to write? Create the branch and some boilerplate files.
Have a strenuous workout to do? Just focus on doing the first exercise.
I find that once you get started it becomes much easier to work on the larger task.
- ep103 6y agoThis is 100% true. Really all of the steps I have above are ways of getting started, that come at the task from an oblique direction. Because you end up doing things like breaking out the task into steps for all sorts of tasks, both good and bad, that step doesn't feel like something that's specific to the "ugh" task when you do do it for an "ugh" task. As a result, its kind of a way of getting started, without actually having to really "start" the task.