Comment by treetalker
13 hours ago
The most-difficult parts of projects are starting them and ending them.
In my experience, the culprits are lacking a clear rubric for completion; activity inertia; fear of failure; and perfectionism (which I find is closely related to the fear of failure).
LATER ADDITION: By "rubric for completion", I mean the answer to the question When and how will I know it's done and ready to ship?
> The most-difficult parts of projects are starting them and ending them.
I'm not sure that is true. Starting is easy. Ending is even easier — you just give up; which is, I would argue, the easiest thing of all for a human to do.
What is hard is taking a project to "I want to share this with other people". That is when the uncomfortable truths get told. As people generally don't like discomfort, there is a lot of motivation to not reach this state.