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This is really amazing stuff! How do you keep moral and focus when tackling harder projects?
by adroitboss 8y ago
This is really amazing stuff! How do you keep moral and focus when tackling harder projects?
- ComputerGuru 8y agoThank you. It's an ongoing struggle that I haven't solved yet. It can be very tempting and fun to just switch to a new project when you reach the point where you know what needs to be done but it's an insane mountain of work that you either dread (e.g. you need to rewrite an entire project from scratch to take a different approach) or can't even do at the moment (e.g. you need precision machining beyond what is available to you). I get a thrill out of besting myself, and find that helps extremely well when I've all but given up hope but conversely that makes it really hard to motivate yourself when it's something you know you can do (perhaps you've done it before) but just aren't looking forward to. Also it's really hard to do something that takes so much insane time/effort (literally years) when you know there's a good chance the world just won't care.