I'm the CTO of international video agency Wooshii and I run an educational media brand called Skill Pathway. I also occasionally chat to people on my podcast, The Learning Developers Podcast.
Really appreciate this comment Nicolai, thank you so much for posting.
You’re right in that this does oversimplify things a lot - there’s going to be so many variables as to how determined and driven you are, not to mention your own mental state that affects these things too.
Self-awareness is key here really - you need to be able to work on something you’re passionate about and equally know all the things you’re getting yourself into.
For us, it was so clear as every project before we had before this ended up in the “unfinished” pile, but working on this has been completely self driven (for 2+ years now mind you)
We also want to mention that we understand oversimplification isn’t completely helpful, we try and pull in both directions with these sorts of things because there’s always 2 sides to the coin - check our other post 3 Actionable Tips To Avoid Abandoned, Unfinished Projects to see what we would consider that flip side.
Thanks again for the balanced perspective Nicolai! Always appreciated
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Really appreciate this comment Nicolai, thank you so much for posting.
You’re right in that this does oversimplify things a lot - there’s going to be so many variables as to how determined and driven you are, not to mention your own mental state that affects these things too.
Self-awareness is key here really - you need to be able to work on something you’re passionate about and equally know all the things you’re getting yourself into.
For us, it was so clear as every project before we had before this ended up in the “unfinished” pile, but working on this has been completely self driven (for 2+ years now mind you)
We also want to mention that we understand oversimplification isn’t completely helpful, we try and pull in both directions with these sorts of things because there’s always 2 sides to the coin - check our other post 3 Actionable Tips To Avoid Abandoned, Unfinished Projects to see what we would consider that flip side.
Thanks again for the balanced perspective Nicolai! Always appreciated