I used the method described in this chapter for years. I use the method for preparing lectures. I also used the method to write this book.

So, as a concrete example here, I show you some pieces for the chapter.

Fig: the actual pieces for writing this chapter

Rough translation of each piece for English readers is as follow. The broken grammar is intentional because I didn't care about grammatical correctness when I made the real Japanese pieces.):

Method to organize thought

thought won't be organized:

too much?

too less?

report

can't write

Do I need to create new knowledge?→(6)

But organizing also build new pyramid in brain

Too many tasks, confusing

→ related to chapter 2

GTD = write out method

Too much? Too less?

Try to write 5 minutes

First try to write 100 pieces

write out method

First write everything come up with

Try to write 100 pieces

measurable goal

interrupt-able

→dupulication is OK

level is not aligned first they come out

don't mind dupulication, together after

can write only less → lack of material to think

write out → small number → evidence of lack

back to chapter 4 and read 3 books roughly

You can see that there are many duplications in the content.

I made pieces once when I planed the contents of this book. It was in May 2016. I wrote "first try to write 100 pieces" because I usually do that.

After that, I left those pieces for chapter 5 aside and wrote the previous chapters. When I was writing the way to motivate yourself in Chapter 2, I noticed that it is a too big task for readers who are unfamiliar with the "to write all out" method. They can not predict how long the task takes. ((2.3.1) Task is too big)

In Chapter 2 (2.3.2) Timeboxing, I explained the method to motivate yourself by making a task smaller, breaking it by time.

As a concrete application of timeboxing, I add a new piece "try to write 5 minutes" that keeps the first step small. And then I re-arranged those pieces, and convert them into sentences. It was August 2017.