Lack of motivation isn't an issue, we procrastinate when we have lack of power to do the task.

The core point of the article is breaking down the task, which he made it look trivial but it's not that simple.

In my experience, higher expectations leads to trying to control the outcome which leads to perfectionism and procrastinating for "ideal" time. So the key is to reduce expectations, which is under our control.

Once I reduce expectation I can try random stuffs which usually lead to breakthrough and the flywheel mentioned in the article.