I gave it a try for brainstorming in this thread here. I found (as I often do) that 5 minutes is just enough time for me to get out all my cached thoughts and only barely start thinking for real. My general experience is that it takes me 25 minutes or so to get real thinking done, but if I tell myself I’ll spend 25 minutes on something I’m less likely to do it than if I claim to myself it’ll only take 5.
(this is most relevant if I’m doing a thing that really requires novel thinking)
I’ll experiment with setting 10 minute timers and committing to sticking to them.
Just wanted to give a props for making a thing.
I gave it a try for brainstorming in this thread here. I found (as I often do) that 5 minutes is just enough time for me to get out all my cached thoughts and only barely start thinking for real. My general experience is that it takes me 25 minutes or so to get real thinking done, but if I tell myself I’ll spend 25 minutes on something I’m less likely to do it than if I claim to myself it’ll only take 5.
(this is most relevant if I’m doing a thing that really requires novel thinking)
I’ll experiment with setting 10 minute timers and committing to sticking to them.