Really interesting. An investment analogy comes immediately to mind: cutting on a bad investment instead of falling for the sunk cost fallacy. If it's just no

Really interesting. An investment analogy comes immediately to mind: cutting on a bad investment instead of falling for the sunk cost fallacy. If it's just not going anywhere, you might be better off just moving on. Sometimes I think "dreams" of this nature are cases where people are more in love with the idea of being something than with the actual act of doing it. That's a red flag. If you love the idea of being -- say -- a filmmaker, but you don't love the actual work of filmmaking enough to make it happen, then you might not really want to be a filmmaker. You might just like something about what it signifies to you. Maybe you can carve just that thing out and leave the rest and move on.