Mental Models For Writers

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The United States Navy SEALs go through some of the most intense and rigorous training you can think of. The dropout rate in basic training is pretty high. Over the years, the Navy found that those who succeed are not the ones who can focus on the big picture, but the ones who can micro-focus.

While crawling through mud with barbed wire fences over you, and there’s a thunderstorm, and it’s raining like cats and dogs…