Progress should survive being human.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

You will get sick, get tired, lose stretches of time to things you did not choose. Any system for progress that assumes otherwise is really a system for feeling like a failure, because human beings are not consistent machines and no amount of resolve makes them one. The plan has to include the fact that you are a person.

Build in slack deliberately rather than pretending you will not need it. Fewer planned days, a lighter target, an accepted margin. You will keep more ground over a year that way than by aiming high and collapsing.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where does your plan assume you will never be tired?

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