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Spent $40 on a Python course and it just clicked for me
I was dead set against paying for any coding tutorials. Always figured free YouTube videos were good enough. Then I spent three weekends bouncing between five different crash courses and got nowhere. Finally dropped $40 on a structured beginner course and finished my first real script in two days. Anyone else find that paying a little actually forced them to stick with it?
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tessaperry1d ago
The sunk cost thing is real. When you pay money, you feel like you have to get your money's worth so you actually sit down and do the work. Free stuff is easy to walk away from when it gets hard. That $40 basically bought you a commitment device as much as it bought the course content. Just make sure you actually finish the whole course now and build something with what you learned. A lot of people buy a course and still stop halfway through.
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flores.emma1d ago
My cousin Sarah spent $300 on a woodworking course and built a table that was SO crooked it wobbled if you looked at it wrong. She was too stubborn to quit though cause she kept saying "I paid for this stupid table." Ended up using it as a firepit bench where the wobble actually helped keep the logs in place. So that $300 bought her a campfire buddy instead of furniture. Sometimes the sunk cost leads you somewhere unexpected.
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richard_young801d ago
Did Sarah name the crooked table yet cause every good firepit buddy needs a name?
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