One wild all-nighter can’t compete with forty ordinary evenings of just doing the work.

Dramatic effort is memorable and mathematically small. Forty modest sessions contain more hours than any single heroic night, and they are done by a rested person rather than an exhausted one, so the quality is better too. The all-nighter appeals because it makes a story, and the ordinary evenings are not a story at all.

Count what you actually need in hours and divide it across the weeks available. Put those hours somewhere specific. Then stop looking for the one big push that would make the arithmetic unnecessary.