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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by puranjay on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @04:23AM (#11900585)
I'm struggling with this as well. Working for the sake of pleasure. It seems that I'm so fixated on how the end result will turn out that I've forgotten the joy of actually doing the work.
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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by elcapitan on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:52AM (#11901083)
If you want a more sociological take on this, read "The Craftsman" by Richard Sennett.
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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by vldx on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:20AM (#11901818)
Allow my to chime in w/ Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art" - same concept, framed in the term "the resistance".
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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by abakker on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @10:43AM (#11902298)
On a slightly different wavelength, Peter Korn's "why we make things and why it matters" really hit home to me.
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