It just hit me. If you wanna achieve something great you have to dream big. If you aim for something humble, you'll just get lost in the endless land of diminishing returns where you take forever to make little progress

If you aim high, you are naturally inclined to do big strides since you feel that there is still so much left to be done

Just a thought I had working on my engine

might be correlated concepts but not entirely true I think

humbleness doesn't mean "don't do anything meaningful", it means when you do meaningful stuff not to lord it over other people's heads and use it as some sort of superiority

problem with my goals is then I have to do all the details. easy for me to choose something meaningful to me but then turns out I have to cross all these T's and dot all these i's and turns out that takes x10 as long as I was hoping it would and then it's like "shit do I want this enough to where it'll take me 3 years to do it? didn't expect that so maybe not". too much commitment. think of the opportunity cost of me doing other things!

but yeah choosing goals that don't seem meaningful to you sounds like self-sabotage. that's not what humility means, and if someone told you that they were a dick (or very fucked themselves, I guess)

@jestdotty I didn't really mean humbleness but I couldn't think of a better word

What I mean is that when the difference between where you are now and where you want to be is small, you naturally lose interest because it's basically done. If the difference is very large -- at least for me -- it motivates you to do a lot because of how much you still have to do