Let’s be real… telling everyone goes before actually starting it
Getting all that dopamine of a theoretical finished product, so you have no motivation to actually build the product. /cries in ADHD
you all have someone to talk to about your projects?
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.
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.
Well I’m triggered
You can put this on the ADHDmemes community too and it will fit just as well.
Looks like me ye indeed
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.
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!
