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The Overlooked Habit That Turns Rabbit Holes Into Real Progress

The Overlooked Habit That Turns Rabbit Holes Into Real Progress

You sit down to finally finish that page, and twenty minutes later you’re three tabs deep in something you never meant to research. It’s not a focus problem. It’s a missing habit, one Nick James stumbled onto in an unlikely place, and one I learned decades earlier without realizing it. The fix is smaller, and stranger, than you’d expect, and it costs nothing but a closed door and a fixed amount of time. Once you protect that block the way you’d protect any appointment you couldn’t cancel, the rabbit holes lose most of their pull.