[watwut]

I tried something like that multiple times - removing all distractions and non work or replacing them by educational activities. Each time it lead to overall slowing down. Peek ceased to be as good. Once it lead to depression, when I replaced all entertainment and chill in my life by "productive activities".

You can do that in short term, the real problem is usually when I tried that for weeks.

Some amount of downtime is necessary. Now I intentionally take breaks and exercise a bit in between coding. The exercise actually helps. With breaks you gotta measure them a bit tho, else you risk taking too long breaks too often.

[tr1coder]

Do you think that those outcomes would not be so detrimental if you did those tweaks more gradually, say over a year period you would get from 2 hours of focused productivity per day to, for example, 5 without those side-effects?