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Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
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CloseI keep seeing folks "joke" about never finishing things (or just eternal procrastination), so here's some great advice on why that happens and how to fix it:
It comes from a filmmaking perspective, but applies to p. much any endeavor.
It comes from a filmmaking perspective, but applies to p. much any endeavor.
As a person who has finished more projects than most, I don't entirely agree with this guy's stance on things. I think I agree in principle, but not the way he described it.
Like, the whole 'make a thing in a day' bit, I can appreciate how that approach can get you out of a creative funk by setting an immediate deadline for something that isn't going to eat up your life beyond that 24-hour period. But you can't apply that logic to anything of substance. If your dream is bigger than 24-hours can allow, this approach won't help you reach it.
The other part of it is just being realistic about your goals. It's good to be detail-oriented and get everything just right, but it's not good to let that sort of thing consume your time and focus. There is a threshold where a thing becomes "good enough" and recognizing that threshold is the point where you can say a project is done. Everything can always be more polished. If it works as intended and looks good on its own, it doesn't need more polish and should suffice as it is. Basically, don't sweat the small stuff. Save it for a once-over at the project's end, and then be done with it.
Like, the whole 'make a thing in a day' bit, I can appreciate how that approach can get you out of a creative funk by setting an immediate deadline for something that isn't going to eat up your life beyond that 24-hour period. But you can't apply that logic to anything of substance. If your dream is bigger than 24-hours can allow, this approach won't help you reach it.
The other part of it is just being realistic about your goals. It's good to be detail-oriented and get everything just right, but it's not good to let that sort of thing consume your time and focus. There is a threshold where a thing becomes "good enough" and recognizing that threshold is the point where you can say a project is done. Everything can always be more polished. If it works as intended and looks good on its own, it doesn't need more polish and should suffice as it is. Basically, don't sweat the small stuff. Save it for a once-over at the project's end, and then be done with it.
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
author=halibabica
As a person who has finished more projects than most,
If you have managed to finish multiple projects, you are probably not the kind of person who needs this advice. Like your post is basically just agreeing with and rehashing what he said.
For example, when you don't have the baseline practice of finishing stuff with a deadline, it's really difficult to be realistic about your goals and get a handle on what's reasonable focus and what's obsessing over pointless fiddly bits.
Well, yeah, I rehashed it because I was summing it up. He didn't state those things exactly in the video; he had a more illustrative example. I posted why I think the advice is good, but also why it's not always good. Being aware of what you're doing with a project and why is important, and even if I didn't need the advice, it was nice to be reminded (SRW2 is currently at a point like this).
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
Yes, yes, very clever.
author=Sooz
Yes, yes, very clever.
What else do you expect from the person who started the Tagline Thread.
I spent a long time pressing F5 to get all those too.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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I'll get around to watching this video eventually.
Now, to be more serious. I would say that this isn't wrong approach if it's something like filmmaking and you're a filmmaker. You need to find motivation to survive.
In case of hobbies and other activities, you can temporary focus somewhere else and then return with new focused dedication (that's harder to get than motivation).
In case of hobbies and other activities, you can temporary focus somewhere else and then return with new focused dedication (that's harder to get than motivation).
turkeyDawg
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I've gone back and looked at some of my babies that I thought "some day, I will carve this into a perfect finished form" and I go back and look at my notes and I look at everything that I was working on like... God, I can't believe I thought this was gonna be the thing that was gonna make me, and I'm like no, no this was an awful idea and I'm probably better for having not made this so, yeah...#Relatable
The whole "just make something don't care if it turns out good or not" is what I've been trying to do for years now but... I guess I'm just hopelessly neurotic or some shit. I can't do it. I either can't bring myself to let shit slide, or I just can't find any reason to care about doing a project that I know is going to be bad.
I mean ffs I can barely make a post on an internet forum or even a chat room sometimes without checking everywhere for typos or awkward phrasing etc
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