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The Art of Finishing
Books can get stuck here in various ways: The author will try to put everything they know into the book, and this causes the book to bloat and become unmanageable. The author won’t stick to a subject and will jump around to different ideas. The author’s perfectionism becomes an excuse to delay or avoid actually working on the book. The author edits
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When you sit down to finish something—whether it’s an explanatory email, a new product design, a research report, or a fundraising strategy—it can be so tempting to do more research. It’s so easy to open up dozens of browser tabs, order more books, or go off in completely new directions. Those actions are tempting because they feel like productivit
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Through talking to my supervisor, it became clear that my graveyard of projects was a product of self-handicapping . We avoid finishing projects because we can't stand the possibility that the finished product won't be as great or perfect as we envisioned it, which means we aren't as great as we think we are. Consider the violinist who intentionall... See more