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When time blocks consistently fail to produce output despite
When time blocks consistently fail to produce output despite correct allocation, diagnose energy state—sleep, nutrition, emotional regulation, decision fatigue—before adjusting time structure.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from finite cognitive resources that deplete (Directed Attention as Depletable Resource), glucose requirements for cognition (Glucose-Cognition Dependency Threshold), metabolic costs of deliberation (Conscious Processing Is Metabolically Expensive), and dual-system processing (Cognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems). It prescribes addressing the dependency chain correctly: energy precedes time allocation in functional priority.