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The mental model for this state is known as "flow" or atheletes sometimes call it "the zone"

...lots (most?) of the actual work that needs to be do is "grinding" or "working against tons of hard/impossibly to remove friction": you'll never achieve any kind of flow doing this kind of work!

So the productivity multiplier advice is this: learn to cope and be productive at doing the kinds of work where flow is impossible/unfeasible!

(This way you'll not be already tired and behind when you get to the work for which "flow" is possible...)

You can gamify anything. Gamify makes the toil of grinding fun.

Flow happens during fun.

Sometimes there are shortcuts to grinding that can only be discovered during "flow" (usually for me, it's to identify better tools)

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