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All the positivity. If I listened to the naysayers, I'd be nowhere.

I won't even read the article.

Motivation is a key requirement. If you don't believe in yourself and/ or your product, you might as well quit everything.

Posts with titles like those are, for me, toxic, and I'll flag it.

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You sound like someone who hasnt worked very long in the industry. Being realistic anout failure allows one to build better products. Simplicity and maintainability and most important replacability. Allows a software to fail and not the business

Neither of you are wrong, but it depends on where you're at.

You need enough motivation to get across the finish line and ship a product. Many, many people fail here.

If you're able to ship you need to be realistic about failure so you can iterate your product or move onto the next one with lessons learned.

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