This section is a condensed version of Bram Moolenaar's article from 2000, and a subsequent presentation from 2007. It's rather good, give it a read on Bram's website: https://moolenaar.net/habits.html. In case you decide to skip reading the whole thing, here follows a very high-level summary.

Since developers spend so much time reading and editing code, Bram highlights an important cycle when it comes to improving your text-editing experience:

1. Detect inefficiency
2. Find a quicker way
3. Make it a habit

Those three steps are augmented with numerous examples. Here's one of the examples for each:

1. Detect inefficiency: Moving around takes a lot of time.
2. Find a quicker way: Often, you're looking for something that's already there. You can search for a piece of text to move faster. Or you can take a step or two further...