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Re:Lessons from a never-ending personal project by mikhailfranco on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @08:37AM (#38695334)
Highly recommend The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin.

He has at least two beautiful chapters on this subject:

Completion p191

The Experimenter and the Finisher p205

The last sentence of Completion:

  We can't wait to finish, 
  because there's another idea calling 
  that lights us up.
The endnote for Completion:

  Is it time for the next project 
  because the clock or the calendar
  says it's time,
  or because the work itself 
  says it's time?
P.S. All his chapters are beautiful.
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Re:Lessons from a never-ending personal project by weekendvampire on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @07:38PM (#38704047)
Author here. The second quote you mentioned really sums up what I was trying to capture. Thanks for the recommendation!
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