SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

It would be interesting to try the opposed but similar strategy of finishing absolutely everything but half-arsing the stuff I don't care about.

Might give more psychological closure, prevent me giving up, and could yield good results if there are a lot of cases where I was overthinking it.

That's interesting. FEATHER - Finish Everything And Triumph, Half-assing Every choRe[0].

I think both this and the article's "SOFA" are useful frameworks to deal with perfectionism.

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[0] - Which I should have done here, instead of spending 10 minutes trying to find the right words for the acronym, and ultimately failing.

I like it, you have the FEATHER cushions of the SOFA.

> I think both this and the article's "SOFA" are useful frameworks to deal with perfectionism.

I feel it's understated how perfectionism and fear of failure are two sides of the same issue.

SOFA "call it quits and win" vs FEATHER "get to the end and celebrate" ideas both fight against an internalised conscientiousness where a thing is only done right if it's thoroughly explored and completed in all dimensions. Which isn't normally possible or worth it IMHO.

Finish It with Love & Interest But Undesired Stuff Therefore Exists Ramshackley

also known as FILIBUSTER - where you prioritize finishing stuff you like, pushing back the things you lack interest in, indefinitely ;P

I'm trying to decide if I prefer

- LIMP – Low-effort Implementation Makes Progress; or

- FINAL – Finish It Now, Amplify Later.

The first highlights how the point is to get somewhere, and floating around like a Brownian particle is not a good strategy for that. Setting up tiny gradients in the right direction will.

I like the second because it makes it clear that just because one finishes for now does not mean one cannot re-open the project later.

To extend the article's marriage analogy, in this case you would be highly invested in a small number of partners you really care about, but also having a bit of fun on the side.