Comments on: Have Courage and Dispel Your Fears http://gbgames.com/blog/2006/05/have-courage-and-dispel-your-fears/ An Indie Game Developer's somewhat interesting thoughts Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GBGames http://gbgames.com/blog/2006/05/have-courage-and-dispel-your-fears/comment-page-1/#comment-23226 GBGames Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:33:30 +0000 http://gbgames.com/blog/?p=402#comment-23226 Thanks for your comments, and I apologize to Karja for not responding earlier. As for reducing risk, it is perfectly fine to quit or stop doing something if you know that the payoff isn't going to be as big as doing something else. When you decide to do one thing, you are also deciding not to do other things, and sometimes it isn't worth it to close out some choices. Just make sure that if you don't do something that it is a conscious choice and not out of a vague fear. Thanks for your comments, and I apologize to Karja for not responding earlier.

As for reducing risk, it is perfectly fine to quit or stop doing something if you know that the payoff isn’t going to be as big as doing something else. When you decide to do one thing, you are also deciding not to do other things, and sometimes it isn’t worth it to close out some choices.

Just make sure that if you don’t do something that it is a conscious choice and not out of a vague fear.

]]> By: Jon Jones http://gbgames.com/blog/2006/05/have-courage-and-dispel-your-fears/comment-page-1/#comment-23212 Jon Jones Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:20:29 +0000 http://gbgames.com/blog/?p=402#comment-23212 "Questions are tools. You use questions to learn things you don’t know. Leaving them unanswered is a terrible joke on your own mind. You’ll constantly worry about the question, but somehow you’ll also forget about seeking the answers." Fantastic quote, and a great post overall! Fear of failure is something I'm actively working to abolish myself, and this post was timely indeed. :) “Questions are tools. You use questions to learn things you don’t know. Leaving them unanswered is a terrible joke on your own mind. You’ll constantly worry about the question, but somehow you’ll also forget about seeking the answers.”

Fantastic quote, and a great post overall! Fear of failure is something I’m actively working to abolish myself, and this post was timely indeed. :)

]]> By: Karja http://gbgames.com/blog/2006/05/have-courage-and-dispel-your-fears/comment-page-1/#comment-21503 Karja Tue, 30 May 2006 15:09:22 +0000 http://gbgames.com/blog/?p=402#comment-21503 Excellent post... But I don't think that minimizing the risk is always possible, and the consequences of failing can be rather harsh. If resources are short, it might be hard to reduce the risk and it might be a big blow (maybe too big) if a project fails. ...In such cases, the only feasible way of minimizing the risk ought to be to either prepare yourself better (but that only gets you that far), or invest less in the project (to minimize the potential loss). But of course, investing less is another way of giving in to fears. It might be difficult to say when a choice is prudent, and when it's "cowardly"... (Oh, and thanks a lot for the comments and links regarding marketing and businesses earlier!) Excellent post… But I don’t think that minimizing the risk is always possible, and the consequences of failing can be rather harsh. If resources are short, it might be hard to reduce the risk and it might be a big blow (maybe too big) if a project fails. …In such cases, the only feasible way of minimizing the risk ought to be to either prepare yourself better (but that only gets you that far), or invest less in the project (to minimize the potential loss).

But of course, investing less is another way of giving in to fears. It might be difficult to say when a choice is prudent, and when it’s “cowardly”…

(Oh, and thanks a lot for the comments and links regarding marketing and businesses earlier!)

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