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That however goes both ways.

Some days you will quickly burn through six tasks on your list because they turn out to domino or all be easy or something else. Sometimes, a single item will take three days even with honest effort and deep work.

If "tasks done" is your metrics, you will get just as burned here.

As with all long-term habit building, I think the key here is identity forming. Be convinced that you are a person that (for example) cares about exploring their field with side projects and then ask yourself: "What would this person do?"

If you believe yourself, you will then both fight through your tasklist or do X hours of honest works and find that the actual system does not even matter that much.




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