How can you have 1000+ hours in a single game, work on a personal project for 10 months, spend 4 years writing a novel?
- it’s not continuous, it’s half a dozen different things intertwined – play for an hour in a game, add a paragraph to a book, get out into the garden for half an hour – cumulatively each individual item adds up (“a journey of a thousand miles”) but it’s an accumulation of a million steps …
- when it’s a form of escapism, your mind will come up with all sorts of justifications – “I just listened to that client for a couple hours, I deserve a few minutes of game play”