i recently noticed that i can unlock more hours if i set a timer and power through 10 minutes acting as if im serious about focusing on the thing  and then refuse to move my ass off the chair for an hour im starting to accept that i need to put in my time to stare at the wall of awful and count it in my work time and try to focus on it too instead of taking it as a sign that brain has left the building  alas taking a break moves me back to the starting block and when im working on something complex i need breaks or my brain overheats  also priming helps my brain warm up to the task like  im working on a big writing project on post-covid social changes so i start with 1 playing a background video of a coffee shop ambience with rain outside 2 reading some thinkpiece tangentially related to covid 3 when i start my actual writing having read a 1k word article somehow makes it easier to write sentences 4 maybe reading that article gave me some thoughts that i write in my piece or just gets me back in the same mental zone with the topic so its like ive almost started so the activation energy treshold is lowered   then again i havent started work before 11pm in a week so maybe im just fooling myself that im on to something   but---  why the flip do basic human functions like eating and smoking take half a day