How is meaningful progress made when pursuing our endeavors?
A counterproductive misconception about all learning is that one should work as hard as possible for endless hours.
Intuitively, this sounds plausible and is valuable advice to those utterly inexperienced with activities like weightlifting and studying. However, for the inexperienced, the material — whether academic or literal kilograms — isn’t weighty enough to cause any harm.
As a medium-to-long-term strategy, attempting excessive hours of high-level work will render one’s work no longer “high-level.”