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Been struggling with this concept a lot lately as I have gone through more than my fair share of ideas put into practice only to give up when I find no interest.

Yet based on the paint brush cover and their 3 year perseverance to find success I often wonder at what point you call it a day?

What if they gave up 2 1/2 years into it?

At what point do you know you FAILED and its time to move on.

It seems almost subjective to a point where you are having to guess and that' cant be a correct methodology? There are plenty of threads on here going on for long periods without much success yet what happened to "fail fast and fail often"?

There are also progress threads that get started where weeks later the OP gets frustrated and gives up...


What constitutes failure to you? How do you know 100% your idea doesnt work and its time to move on?
 
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