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I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.