38Chunk Down

Urban legend and Internet lore has it that on June 20, 1995, Dick Miller completed eating the last chunk of a 2,800-pound automobile. He started with two lug nuts and finished, five years later, by devouring the last of the clutch hosing. So, the next time you get stopped dead in your tracks by a colossal, gargantuan, oversized, almost-impossible-to-surmount project, remember to do what the mysterious Mr. Miller did, and chunk your endeavor down into confrontable, doable, bite-sized pieces.

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Thankfully, in the world of work, chunking down doesn’t require eating metal (although some of your tasks may be just as difficult to swallow), ...

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