If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.
But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
I don't think in terms of projects.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be a nightmare if it were the other way around. But it's sometimes a little disheartening.
Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.
I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.
No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.