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SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

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191 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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andai ◴[18 Oct 24 09:40 UTC] No.41877747[source]▶
This is just my normal approach to life, owing mostly to low conscientiousness (and probably unmedicated ADHD).

The result has been thousands of side projects but nothing I can actually put on a portfolio or monetize (and as a result, poverty).

It's sort of bizarre and hilarious to see people glorify and promote it?

Do normal people have to make a significant conscious effort not to finish what they start?!

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1. kbrecordzz ◴[20 Oct 24 05:23 UTC] No.41893081[source]▶
I don’t think anyone is more or less normal here. But for some people, feeling the pressure to finish everything you’ve started could in worst case learn to burnout, not only like ”getting exhausted from a specific project” but your brain actually stops functioning. Maybe that’s why they glorify a more ”go with the flow” lifestyle.

It’s interesting to see most people here connecting ”starting many projects for fun” with procrastrinating, and also wanting to fix that with discipline. For others the situation is completely different. The grass is greener on the other side I guess: me as an ambitious person actually _want_ to procrastrinate more, and don’t see it as a bad thing to be less outcome-focused.