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By deploying a blanket policy of doubling these initial estimates, you can counter this instinct toward unjustified optimism. The result: plans that can be completed at a more leisurely pace. The fear here, of course, is that by doubling these timelines, you’ll drastically reduce what you accomplish. But your original plans were never realistic or sustainable in the first place. A key tenet of slow productivity is that grand achievement is built on the steady accumulation of modest results over time. This path is long. Pace yourself.
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
I was not interested in professionals. They like schedules. They like somebody who’s going to approach their work as a piece of work, and not very obsessively. I was into crafting an identity that was very, very personal to me as a man. As an artist. That was the job that I was doing and needed to do. For myself, for my own inner life. So I needed people who innately understood that that was what we were crafting. I wanted to connect that identity with the very big picture of the country at large. And so, I had big ideas, and I had no problem spending all my time trying to bring them to fruition. So I needed people who were going to be willing to go in as deep as I needed and was willing to go myself. Generally those are not professionals, just people who were passionate and had some skills.
Deliver Me From Nowhere
Warren Zanes
Generally speaking, meaningful positive feedback is one of the crucial factors in maintaining motivation.
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Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
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