To productively obsess, you must be easy with taking the risks that accompany difficult projects. What are those risks? That choosing this obsession was a mistake. That you won't succeed. That you'll disappoint yourself (again) or that the world will disappoint you (again). Unless you're in the habit of taking such rusks automatically, so that risk-taking is not even an issue for you, you will have to train yourself to conscouly announce that you are about to risk. You must put the idea of risk on the table and then fiercely embrace it.
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The state of avoidance. We are not really obsessing about our idea, only about our doubts and worries. We aren't thinking, "How does gravity work?" We;re thinking, "How can somebody with an IQ of only 135 solve such a problem?" We aren't thinking, "HHow can I use that folk melody in the third movement of my symphony?" We're thinking, "Who in her right mind would compose a symphony nowadays?" We haven't embraced the risk inherent in interesting projects, and we're secretly hoping for guarantees...
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