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kleinbl00  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you know when you're done?

I saw Spiritualized and Curve open for The Jesus and Mary Chain on the Honey's Dead tour in 1992.

You never know when you're done. You decide. This is an important distinction because "knowing" is an internal observation of an external phenomenon while "deciding" is an internal action on an external condition. Deciding has initiative. Knowing has only awareness.

You can decide that something is done when you hit five milestones on the Gannt chart or you can decide that it's done when your critical path is blocked or you can decide that you have more important things to do in your life than commit indie bands to vinyl but in all cases, you are making an active choice.

But nobody can decide but you, and while you should absolutely solicit all the advice and counsel you need to make that decision, you should never give it over to someone else.