Reading through the book 4000 Weeks, something struck me: in every difficult endeavour in my professional life, I always failed by quitting while I was succeeding. I stopped freelancing while I was taking off to go back into corporate. I then quit my corporate jobs as I was on track of a promotion.
In all these cases I lacked patience. Whenever things got hard, i.e. slow and therefore boring, and I was faced with my limitations, I got uncomfortable an quit that activity to start something new. Something that’s more challenging, fresh, and overwhelming, than grinding at becoming infinitesimally better at my current craft.
Something that would give me a rush of overwhelming novelty.