Research

Steven Pressfield's trick with research

"Here's what I do. In my non-working hours, I'll read the stuff I need for research. I buy the books, rather than take them out from the library. That way I'm free to mark them up, dog-ear, underline, highlight. Then each morning I take the first hour at the keyboard to transcribe those notes into files. This is an excellent warm-up for the day; it gets me filling pages without having to do any really hard work. And it's a good way to steep myself in the material. The trick, for me, is to limit this research time to a single hour. Then I stop. Religiously. The next three hours are real work."

http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/

Most of the time too many research stops you by start your work.

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