Messy, big projects create a region of attraction in your life. Besides the stuff you track, they induce implicit structure in your unstructured activity like tweeting, things you notice (primed attention zone) etc. The weight in that unstructured region = ambiguity in why/how.
Example: if you have a list of projects and every morning you decide to pick the most important one to spend 2 hours on, you'll probably thrash and fail if there's significant how/why ambiguity in all of them...
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But if you translate to inner, then result might pop out that it doesn't matter which project you prioritize on a give day, but that you practice making decisions earlier to hit the Bezos Point of 70% sure instead of your comfort zone of say 95%
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The key is to purposely introduce chance elements into your thinking. Other benefits: avoid ruminating about the topic before you sit down to work-related for me, entirely unproductive. Other benefits: stop OCD overwork and give your output a chance to 'rest' before judging
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A trick I found: choose 1 topic at random from your bag of topics. Work min 3 and max 5 hrs on the topic, excluding breaks. If you succeed, set the topic aside for the next phase. If you fail, put the topic back in the bag for another chance.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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