There is a difference between the genius perfectionist that keeps refining something until it is perfect and the moronic time-waster who just keeps making irrelevant changes to something. I am the latter of the two. Maybe my mind could yield something useful to the world but I'm probably just thinking about how to make a bit about playing peek-a-boo with an adult Bengal tiger. All the while, never really deciding on what that bit should be.
Do you know how long it took me to pick out the fonts for this site? Do you know how many times I changed them? These are things that do not lead to production. They are static factors that once they have been set in place, should not be messed with again. They should be like the sun, you always expect it to come up and be yellow, orange, or reddish pink when it's setting. You don't ever expect the sun to come up as a giant neon rainbow like there is a gay pride parade in the sky.
Now you do need to pick a font and you do need to pick a theme if you're going to have a website. I'm talking about the visual theme here not the theme of my writing. The theme of my writing is to get mad chuckles. But like I was saying, you can't have a giant wall of text as your site. Nobody is going to like that. And it's perfectly acceptable to spend a good amount of time on deciding. But flip-flopping a million times without really coming to a decisive conclusion is not a part of have a productive mindset. Getting me to decide on something is as productive as changing your main foundation for construction from concrete and steel to dominoes and Gorilla tape. It's a decision that means that you don't mind doing all the work over again.
Creatively, I can put more work into getting nothing done than anyone you've ever met. You and I might meet for a cup of coffee on Thursday of whatever. During that time we may talk about the project that I have in the works for the coming months. If we meet for coffee again in 3 years, I might still be working on that same project. I have the patience to build a barn out of toothpicks, but nobody wants a barn made out of toothpicks. I don't think it would be all that good at containing cows either. My work takes a long time is what I'm saying.
It's infuriating and probably not good for my mental health to be so indecisive. I could definitely have a full on meltdown while trying to decide what part of the text should be underlined or not. I have never intentionally underlined anything on this site. But I've definitely thought about it!
Ultimately I'm perfectly okay with wasting all this time. I'm never satisfied with what I've done, but there is a point where there is really no point in continuing to work on something. That's the point at which I can relax. Whatever I've made isn't perfect but I do feel at that time that it's time to stop. And that's a good place to get to. By the way the new theme is called Ultra generic. This was not a decision that I arrived at quickly.
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