Starting Projects
Starting Projects
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Let's be real... telling everyone goes before actually starting it
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you all have someone to talk to about your projects?
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My wife. She often has no idea what I'm talking about but she listens patiently and at least looks like she's interested. I appreciate her for that.
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Getting all that dopamine of a theoretical finished product, so you have no motivation to actually build the product. /cries in ADHD
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I am desperately hoping the people I tell about my ideas will steal them so the project will exist without me having to do anything.
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Apparently, the dopamine rush of telling someone about your project, you going back to school, you getting healthy, improving yourself, etc is so strong it's basically pre-rewarding you for it. The result is scientifically-documented drops in people following-through and achieving their goals... You want to succeed? Don't tell anyone until you're already almost there!
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I almost didn't finish a PhD because of this. It's like telling people about makes it feel like you've accomplished something and made some progress on it - when that's factually wrong.
I'm sure that there's a name for this phenomenon, something in psychology.
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I am convinced the entire actual point of college is to test "ability to finish a project". A Bachelor's degree is a four year project. A Master's degree is an additional two year project. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is an additional five to eight year project. (Do remember that a Master's is not needed for a PhD.)
This is not a judgement on the many reasons for stopping.
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I'm not gonna go hunting for it, but I'm pretty sure this has been studied and you're spot on.
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Yeah it's definitely a thing.
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All I see is that this cycle is more efficient.
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check this dope URL I picked up, I have an idea and it's totally going to be viral
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No, seriously, i am working on it!
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last commit: 7 months ago
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"This repository was archived by the owner on July 12, 2025. It is now read-only."
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You can put this on the ADHDmemes community too and it will fit just as well.
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Well I'm triggered
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Quick, what was your last project you didn't finish?
For me it was app to prepare for nautical exams. I wrote a scraper that downloaded all official tests and answer sheets, trained image recognition model to find the marked answers and started working on parsing the question PDFs but then I had to find a new job and never got back to it.
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I enjoy that "reading the book" and "taking a practice exam" were not listed as activities done. :)
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Tbh at the moment I just have an idea, tell everyone about it, and I have no energy for it for 2 weeks and forget about it. It's more frustrating because you don't even get the satisfaction of starting anything and seeing the early rapid progress before ditching it
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This is fine. Projects that require specialized skills can require that you get heavily invested before you discover the implications, scope and yeah your own lasting interest.
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Looks like me ye indeed
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