Moment 63 - How To Get Any Task Done: Oliver Burkeman

In your book you talk about embracing radical incrementalism. What does that mean for you? This is the idea that There are contexts where um

really being willing. To make it progress on the basis of little and often, right? Kind of. gradual progress to do a tiny bit at a time.

And not kind of binging on the things you're trying to achieve can be really powerful. Um Again, I'm sorry to keep coming back to writing as an example, but the the work that I'm drawing on there from a a psychologist called Robert Boyce, who studied um academics who write and figure trying to figure out like who are the ones who actually get a ton of papers published and a ton of books written and who are the ones who get mired in um

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