• VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.vgEnglish
    6·
    10 hours ago

    I almost didn’t finish a PhD because of this. It’s like telling people about makes it feel like you’ve accomplished something and made some progress on it - when that’s factually wrong.

    I’m sure that there’s a name for this phenomenon, something in psychology.

    • null@slrpnk.net
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I’m not gonna go hunting for it, but I’m pretty sure this has been studied and you’re spot on.

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I am convinced the entire actual point of college is to test “ability to finish a project”. A Bachelor’s degree is a four year project. A Master’s degree is an additional two year project. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is an additional five to eight year project. (Do remember that a Master’s is not needed for a PhD.)

      This is not a judgement on the many reasons for stopping.

  • 2deck@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 hours ago

    This is fine. Projects that require specialized skills can require that you get heavily invested before you discover the implications, scope and yeah your own lasting interest.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
    2·
    15 hours ago

    Quick, what was your last project you didn’t finish?

    For me it was app to prepare for nautical exams. I wrote a scraper that downloaded all official tests and answer sheets, trained image recognition model to find the marked answers and started working on parsing the question PDFs but then I had to find a new job and never got back to it.

  • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    I am desperately hoping the people I tell about my ideas will steal them so the project will exist without me having to do anything.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    Apparently, the dopamine rush of telling someone about your project, you going back to school, you getting healthy, improving yourself, etc is so strong it’s basically pre-rewarding you for it. The result is scientifically-documented drops in people following-through and achieving their goals… You want to succeed? Don’t tell anyone until you’re already almost there!