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Finishing programming projects (discuss.online)

submitted 1 year ago by Krzak@discuss.online to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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How do I trick my brain into completing a project? I'm making an app that shows which voice actor plays a character in the movie and what other movies they act in. It's useful for me personally but I feel like I'm making something that's been done numerous times over and I lost the momentum because I'm on vacation with my family now. I ran into some problems with the project too and getting help takes a ton of time so it's disrupting the rythm too. I really have to put at least 2-3 projects like this for a portfolio;_;

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[–] bunny_funeral@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i read this somewhere, and i can't recall where now, but it anecdotally feels very true:

as soon as you tell someone about something you're working on but haven't finished yet, you get a premature dopamine hit. for some reason, that messes with the reward centre in your brain and makes it less likely to actually finish the fucking thing, like you've already sucked the juice out leaving an empty husk. so, my secret to finishing programming side projects has been to tell no one of them until they're ready. this is heavily paraphrased, i know nothing.