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		narrator on Jan 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and ... Perhaps it's that he believes he is eventually going to succeed and he's convinced himself of this since he also consciously or subconsciously believes that if he doesn't he won't have any other ideas so he might as well try forever to get this idea to work.

alttab on Feb 4, 2019 [–]

Potentially, but there still needs to be milk to milk it. Sounds like this guy is too focused on an idea that he hasn't executed well.

That's like trying to milk a starving cow, because none of the other animals on your farm are alive.

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