you're left with the feeling that all that common advice people give you actually worked in their case, maybe because their knowing-doing gap is small, so they're execution machines that rarely have to work around their limitations. they can just decide on stuff and carry it all the way through. the stark opposite of that is ADHD, which is what i have. i'm a highly unproductive person most of the time because i rarely manage to get my shit together. the average person sits somewhere in between these two extremes.