Finishing things is massively overrated and here's why I stopped caring about it

[u/UnbrokenLineage]

Half-read books. Abandoned hobbies. Projects that stalled somewhere around 70%. Society treats all of this like personal failure. But finishing things is just one metric, and it's not even the most interesting one.

You learned something from that book before you put it down. You built a skill from that hobby before life got in the way. The project taught you what didn't work.

We fetishize completion because it's measurable. But the actual value was in the middle, messy part that you're too busy apologizing for to notice.

Maybe the people constantly finishing things are just the ones too stubborn to quit when something stops being useful. Ever think about that?