Breaking tasks down helps us to see large tasks as more approachable and doable, and reduces our propensity to procrastinate or defer tasks, because we simply don’t know where to begin.
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"Breaking tasks down helps us to see large tasks as more approachable and doable, and reduces our propensity to procrastinate or defer tasks, because we simply don’t know where to begin."
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Breaking Down The Tasks
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.
Break Down Big Tasks
- 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...
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