Reduce the distance between milestones, and you'll go much farther. That's what I learned from a seasonal update to Pokémon Go's reward systems.
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Thank you for writing this!
I learned this 'trick' for achieving longer milestones from my motorcycle riding and car driving experiences, pretty much the same as your observation in Pokémon Go: if I focused on the fact that I had another 800km to drive, it felt daunting. However I realised that if I targeted the next big town somewhere under 100km, I could easily do those 100km 8 times over :D
Glad you liked it!
One of my favorite things about this is that it's a pattern that works for a lot of things.
Ironically I started to learn HTML5 canvas not even a week ago. This post came right on time. I was close to jumping into to big of a “canvas,” that would keep me from learning anything. Thanks I will make my projects smaller from now on.
Glad the timing worked out!
This is one of the side-effects I get from TDD. Write the smallest working pieces possible until you have a big thing!
Great point! It definitely makes a big project less daunting.
This is also why I love coding. It allows you to see life and all the things that comes with it, as a sum of patterns.