I wish I could find the talk by a professor who gave a lecture on this topic. It really helped drive home the need to break tasks down into bite sized chunks. H

I wish I could find the talk by a professor who gave a lecture on this topic. It really helped drive home the need to break tasks down into bite sized chunks. He basically found that if his grad students weren’t making progress on their thesis, it was invariably because they basically didn’t know what to do next. So he would work with them on finding a next thing to work on, which almost invariably required breaking some bigger task down. I don’t remember the field so this might not work as well for topics that require a eureka moment, but I’ve certainly found if I’m not making progress on something it’s often necessary for me to find a more time boxable thing to work on next. edit: got lucky. Tim Pychyl https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFQA998WiA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFQA998WiA