Chatting about shiny object syndrome?

7 Feb 2024 · 0 min

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Short YouTube clip (Mark Evans DM) discussing "shiny object syndrome" and arguing that overthinking prevents action: the speaker urges doing rather than endlessly thinking, saying you don't need to get things perfect—just start. He reframes goals (contrast: some aim for $34.25/hour while he thinks in terms of $275/day) to illustrate shifting perception and prioritizing execution.

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$34.25 an hour.

$275 a day.

So when people talk to me about shiny object syndrome, it's just simply because they're thinking, not doing. When you're in so deep in the game, I'm so busy doing. The reason most people don't do this is like, you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going. Many of you are trying to figure out how to make $34.25 an hour. I'm thinking how to make 275 bucks a day. It's like changing the perception of what it looks.