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WATER_IN_THE_WELL

                                             July     1, 2009
                                             October 15, 2013
                                       
   A standard piece of                                         
   advice is to "stop                    I've heard this attributed              
   with some water in                    to Hemingway, I think by               
   the well":                            Merlin Mann.                           
                                                                                
   It often feels like that's the            But isn't it "stop with some          
   case to me...  I tend to think of         *ink* in the well"?  Or is  
   it like "stop in the middle,              that too archaic now?       
   while you're inside the problem";                     
   or "get inside quickly" (even if
   it means being sloppy, trying
   something that won't work that        E.g. skim through the
   you'll have to throw away).           first chapter of
                                         something that seems
                                         heavy going.


        There are a lot of
        simpler things you
        hear that I think
        boil down to the
        same thing:

           "Don't get stuck";
           "Well begun is half done"


        What it has to do with is manipulating your
        consciousness, turning a task from something
        on a list into something on your mind.






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