Besides startups, it's not enough to find the most important thing you should do. You should also make yourself do it, often at the expense of ignoring everything else. I'm surprised how often I'm able to intellectually tell what the most important thing is and still not bring myself do it. I wish the article offered tips on how to do that.<p>A big problem I have with time is that it seems you need to have some runway of time for your subconscious to mull over things. And you can't force this process. Not only do you get an answer when you least expect it, which you can't predict, but it also seems that forcing yourself to come up with an answer yields a bad one. It's as if you should be forcing yourself to <i>not</i> try hard for an answer.<p>How do you deal with that?<p>Could you get better at this type of ambient thinking? How? Are there exercises for improving, or at least directing, subconscious thought?<p>I suspect the place to look isn't the hard sciences but the arts.
It just feels like I read a long advertisement trying to sell me on their product.<p>I'm sure they make some very good points, but they could be a bit more subtle at the end.
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