Quality vs. Duration

Quality focus time of 1 hour beats low-quality working for 5 hours. Because the work would stick.

Argument 1

success means nothing without health, and health means nothing if you don’t feel good.

Argument 2

eventually live longer( which is only in theory because there’s no alternative version of your life) means nothing if your day feel’s bad, you don’t get things done, if pointless, meaningless, without love

conclusion

And therefore it sheds some light into taking supplements/behaviour that may have negative effect on the length of lifespan/endurance of certain activity(being alive, being awake, being energized, focus), to value quality as well as duration.

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examples

example 1

Learning concepts from papers. low-quality reading time have near-zero contribution to lasting memory, as you don’t remember them, and are not motivated enough to do accompanying activites like review, set lease for review, spawn/capture ideas…

As result, you may spend 2 hours trying to read a paper(very likely word by word, because you are tired and didn’t bothered to take a smarter approach)

example 2

Practicing Piano. Actively finding patterns, drill on positions/phrases are only viable options if you are aware of them and aware of what should be down, and aware of the limited amount of progress you can make in a focused session. none of them is available when you are tired and just want to hear/accomplish some thing.

As result, you may spend 1 hour practicing a whole song, while not making it more familiar to you hand, or worse, make mistakes and wrong hand positions sticks.