MANAGING YOUR FLOW
“find the disruptors. throw them away. protect your flow.”
The Lesson
Flow is different from time and energy management. It's about maintaining an uninterrupted glide path on your task. The enemy: flow disruptors. Example: a pen holder with pens that don't work, or work differently than expected. Every time you grab one, your flow breaks for 3 seconds of frustration. The solution isn't putting the bad pen aside. It's DESTROYING it. Break it. Throw it away. Never touch it again. Your life is filled with these tiny disruptions. A pencil without a point? Don't sharpen it. Throw it away. Each time you eliminate a flow disruptor, your productivity improves invisibly but meaningfully.
Real-World Example
A developer's workflow has flow disruptors: a bookmark that 404s, a terminal alias that's slightly wrong, a config file that needs manual editing each time. The instinct is to work around them. Better: delete the bookmark, fix the alias, automate the config. Ten minutes of 'destruction' saves hours of micro-interruptions. Flow disruptors compound. Eliminating them compounds too.
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