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Originally Posted by taylor_venable
For me, when I've coded a whole bunch on one project, I often feel like I never want to look at the problem again. Then I take a break and within an hour I've got some new idea or solution that I want to try.
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I'm exactly the same way. Most of the time my great ideas happen right when I go to bed, then every go-to-bed attempt after that, then I just admit that I'm not going to sleep and I stay up all night. The cause is usually the anxiety of not extending an idea to all parts of a project, or of not having it written as cleanly as humanly possible. Having great ideas is fun, getting something to work as I envision it is better, but the psychological side effects and the time eaten up certainly make it a balanced trade. Ironically, fulfilling a great idea rarely resolves it; it just initiates a tormenting brainstorm for another great idea.
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Originally Posted by taylor_venable
I guess I may be too committed for my own good.
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I'm pretty sure the term you're looking for is "compulsive," in my case "compulsive perfectionism." Defining it does little to help the problem, for me anyway.
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