Growth is annoying: fix one thing, discover three more. That’s the game working.
CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY
Solving a problem raises your resolution, so you start seeing things that were always there. The list gets longer not because you are falling apart but because you can finally perceive the next layer. People who see nothing wrong are usually not looking. An expanding list of things to work on is evidence of progress, even though it feels like the opposite.
Resist the urge to fix all three at once, which is how people quit. Choose the one that would make the others easier and leave the rest written down. Check the list in a month and cross off what solved itself.
What new problem showed up right after you fixed the last?
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