The Long View

[PREVIEW] Why Making Things for Yourself Is So Hard


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Making something for yourself should be the easiest kind of work — but often it’s the hardest.

In this full episode of The Long View, Jeff Krug, Jon Peters, and Walter Peters dig into why personal projects stall out. They talk honestly about perfectionism, identity, and the pressure that comes with wanting personal work to represent your best thinking and ability.

The conversation explores how experience can make starting harder instead of easier, why unfinished projects carry so much weight, and how this struggle looks different across generations. Walter shares what it’s like to learn while watching this happen — and how that perspective shapes his own approach to making.

This episode doesn’t offer neat solutions.
It offers perspective.

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