MELISSA GRATIAS

The core technique of achieving progress is to break down tasks into small, doable tasks.

• One large task can appear daunting and undoable, but breaking it down to small subtasks can help us assign different levels of priority and criticality to the subset.

• We often feel overwhelmed to try something as it appears too big and undoable (like writing a book), leading to us not even starting it.
• Breaking down a task into clean, small doable actions makes us accomplish the same.
• The step by step approach makes work more manageabl...

If we don’t see enough progress by the end of the day, it feels (to us or our superiors) like we haven’t done enough.

Apart from the completion bias, where our brain seems hardwired to wanting to finish the given tasks, we are also having another cognitive bias called the plan...