Separate phases

Cut a stretch you have been treating as one continuous activity into segments that run by different rules. Each segment gets its own goal, its own success test, and its own definition of what confusion or slowness means.

Cut a stretch you have been treating as one continuous activity into segments that run by different rules. Each segment gets its own goal, its own success test, and its own definition of what confusion or slowness means.

Example

"Studying stats" splits into three phases: struggle (attempt 5 problems cold, goal is finding what breaks), repair (read only the sections that broke, goal is fixing them), and drill (20 problems, goal is speed). Feeling lost is expected in phase one, a red flag in phase three.