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danohuiginn
on Jan 2, 2011
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Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear t...
for me, the key in this is to mean it. i.e. to really let yourself stop after the first line if you want to. 90% of the time you'll do much more anyway, but it doesn't work unless you allow yourself to give up after 5 minutes the other 10%.
keeptrying
on Jan 2, 2011
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Yup. You have to completely let yourself stop after 1 line of code every time.But you'll find that you won't.
At that time I start a pomodoro timer so that I can keep making sure it's useful progress.
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