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No more "I'll work on my book." Instead, it was "I will write 200 words about the methodology." One Tuesday, his mentor, Dr

He realized the secret wasn't being a genius; it was being a . By treating writing as a mundane, scheduled task rather than a mystical event, the "big blocks of time" he’d been chasing became irrelevant. She looked like someone who had already finished

"I’m waiting for the weekend," Paul sighed. "I need at least six hours of quiet to really get into the flow."