Thanks! And: In cases like this, it helps me to know which “Aha” you got from what—if you can say. I’m never quite sure whether my writing is going to work, and so I’m always trying to figure out what did work. Email me if you prefer not to comment.
1) To know you personally experienced a feeling of “No way, that is too hard” yet kept going
2) That you said: “the total mountain-to-be-climbed has increased in height” which was getting me increasingly anxious recently.
3) This: “When you’re confused about a domain, problems in it will feel very intimidating and mysterious, and a query to your brain will produce a count of zero solutions. But you don’t know how much work will be left when the confusion clears.”
Basically, the fact that you have described situations which I have experienced myself, that were tipping the balance of my emotions towards the “Forget about it, too hard” side, and said that in those situations you just kept walking, untarnished.
Which clearly shows that this kind of reasoning would only seduce someone who already thinks you are a good fellow, and a smart hard worker. I’m unsure which bits would be persuasive for someone who started less wrong by this post.
has increased in height
That is usually where I end up after estimating the amount of time required to do a software project (small or large). But, as EY pointed out, once you do the work to figure out what must be done, then the problem is just ‘really hard’.
Thanks! And: In cases like this, it helps me to know which “Aha” you got from what—if you can say. I’m never quite sure whether my writing is going to work, and so I’m always trying to figure out what did work. Email me if you prefer not to comment.
What a fantastic motivational post.
Some things that definitely worked for me:
1) To know you personally experienced a feeling of “No way, that is too hard” yet kept going 2) That you said: “the total mountain-to-be-climbed has increased in height” which was getting me increasingly anxious recently. 3) This: “When you’re confused about a domain, problems in it will feel very intimidating and mysterious, and a query to your brain will produce a count of zero solutions. But you don’t know how much work will be left when the confusion clears.”
Basically, the fact that you have described situations which I have experienced myself, that were tipping the balance of my emotions towards the “Forget about it, too hard” side, and said that in those situations you just kept walking, untarnished.
Which clearly shows that this kind of reasoning would only seduce someone who already thinks you are a good fellow, and a smart hard worker. I’m unsure which bits would be persuasive for someone who started less wrong by this post.