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[kamaal]

Its called building momentum. Once you get going, taking a break interrupts the 'in the zone' mode.

There is a deeper philosophy to it. Check out this concept called 'Flow'. Its pretty much the opposite of this philosophy.

[mjschultz → kamaal]

For anyone interested in looking for at this, here is the wikipedia article: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)