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> What proportion of great work has been done by people who were skating in this sense? If not all of it, certainly a lot. I used to think like that. However,
by myth2018 5y ago
> What proportion of great work has been done by people who were skating in this sense? If not all of it, certainly a lot.
I used to think like that. However, the years I spent on my masters and on my startup were a watershed.
I was finally working on projects of my very own. But, after some months of extreme excitement, I was resorting to medicine and self help articles to heep me motivated and focused, especially when the boring intricacies started to pop up.
The passion, due to its very nature, fades away.
In my case, I alleviated those issues with method and discipline. They help you overcome the boring parts. The passion even became cyclic, as the growing body of work and solved problems made me feel engaged again.
Nowadays I even feel much better about the plethora of not-my-own-projects I've worked on along my life.
- swalsh 5y agoIf it helps, I used to be motivated out of sheer wanting to get that thing that was in my head out, and see it working. That might be enough for a youtube video or a product demo with some executives at the company. Heck you can turn that 80% into a real career booster (I've done this), but it's not a production ready product. The last 20% of the work will take 80% of the time. It's really hard to be motivated for that last part. It's all the hard stuff that seems insignificant... and you've already got the cheese. If you can accomplish it, the trick to staying motivating is to figure out the mental gymnatics to move where you put the cheese in the trap. If you can do that... you have a real chance at being motivated past the proof of concept.