Wisdom

Character is getting discouraged and continuing anyway

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One measure of character is you get discouraged, and you get down. But you still keep doing the thing. You don't stop. You don't let it overwhelm you.

Episode 149: Scrape my JSON (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:04:12 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Dave draws motivation from Podcasting 2.0 developers who plug away every day. Everyone gets discouraged; one measure of character is that you keep doing the thing anyway and don't let it overwhelm you.