This is the kind of advice that&#x27;s too general to be useful. Actually, anything in the vein of &quot;being more effective&quot; is really difficult to effectively teach. The reason, I believe, is that productivity techniques always rest on previously-learned productivity techniques, and those are always practically inextricable from general life stuff.<p>You can&#x27;t learn how to write like Stephen King by aping his methods. You&#x27;re just never going to get there, doesn&#x27;t matter how much effort you put in. Stephen King is uniquely suited to writing because he made himself uniquely suited for writing, and his method of writing is the product of decades of intensely personal iteration on not just &quot;how he writes books&quot;, but also &quot;how he lives life&quot;.