SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

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strken ◴[18 Oct 24 04:56 UTC] No.41876466[source]▶

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.

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TeMPOraL ◴[18 Oct 24 06:46 UTC] No.41876928[source]▶

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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.

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

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1. rkachowski ◴[18 Oct 24 07:01 UTC] No.41876997[source]▶

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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.

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