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> currently my mind thinks “not trying so I don’t fail” is the best option for my health and wellbeing. no, the best option by a considerable margin is trying and failing.

> think of myself one year from now, one which hasn’t tried at all and one that has tried and failed over and over again. would much rather have the second future.

and to talking to others / Claude far more often.

> if I can’t accomplish big step “ONE”, scale it back

kind of on this point, I think there are a lot of points in time between starting a project and "fully failing" at which you can say you have tried and failed, or at which point you can say that you simply don't have the skills. This is definitely is a gray area which often gets me to call it quits or pivot earlier than I would have liked to.

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