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MrMind comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MrMind 06 August 2013 07:16:57AM 0 points [-]

That was a huge source of akrasia for me. I fight by dividing the task ahead into very tiny subproblems ("chunk down", in NLP parlance) and then solving them on at the time. Then it's easy to get into flow...