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by rsanek 2211 days ago
What I've found can be useful in these cases is to define success as a small amount of time spent working on the problem. For example, I have a daily goal of spending 5 minutes a day on language learning. Some days I really only have energy for the 5 minutes, but as time has gone on, more and more days end up with time spend far in excess of 5.