What makes a project that gets off to good start worth finishing? (Assume you don't have the more basic problem of never finishing anything)
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Awareness of (& emotional or financial interest in) a need that is going unmet until the project ships.
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customer / user enthusiasm. If no one else cares if I finish, I probably don't either.
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continual bolstering and/or change in implicit motivation till the end. explicit stays the same throughout.



