Generalizing from one example much? Maybe there are some people who are most efficient when they do 10 different things an hour a day each, other people who are most efficient when they do the same thing 10 hours a day, and other people still who are most efficient in intermediate circumstances.
Agreed; most people, me included, would probably be more productive if they interleaved productive tasks than if they did productive tasks in big blocks of time. I was just saying that in my experience, when I'm forced to do some unpleasant task a lot, after a while it's not as unpleasant as I initially expected. I'm pretty cognitively atypical, so you're right that other people are likely not the same.
(This is of course a completely different claim than what the great-grandparent sorta implied and which I mostly argued against, which is that "Most pe...
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