Tap Into the “Hemingway Effect” to Finish What You Start
it’s best to find a good stopping point on a project—one that frees your mind from nagging questions—before moving on to another
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
Intentionally leave tasks unfinished. The more abruptly you stop working on a creative task, the more you’ll think about it when you switch to another. Leave some residue in your attentional space for your mind to continue processing the initial task. For example, try stopping work on a complicated report midway through a sentence. Leaving tasks pa
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He would always end a writing session only when he knew what came next in the story.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
If you “stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day,” Hemingway said, “your subconscious will work on it all the time.” John Le Carré says he’ll “always try to go to sleep before I finish working, just a little bit before. Then I know where I’ll go the next morning, but I won’t quit
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