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The Creative Burnout Pivot Pack
Get unstuck without forcing it.
Five micro-protocols for makers who are over-it: discomfort management from Nir Eyal, decoupling generation from evaluation via Adam Grant, narrative rewriting from Lori Gottlieb, and timing your sharpest hours from Daniel Pink.
Behavioral
The 10-Minute Rule
Sit with the urge to escape for ten minutes before you act on it.
2-min read 10-min actionNENir Eyal
Organizational
The Shitty First Draft Validation
Decouple generation from evaluation by producing three deliberately rough versions.
2-min read 15-min actionAGAdam Grant
Clinical
The Insight-to-Action Split
Name the fear, interrogate the narrator, then ask what moves it 10% forward.
3-min read 10-min actionLGLori Gottlieb
Behavioral
The Two-Minute Rule
Shrink any new habit until it can be done in under two minutes.
2-min read 2-min actionNENir Eyal
Behavioral
The When, Not What
Do your most cognitively demanding work during your daily peak — not after lunch.
2-min read 10-min actionDPDaniel Pink