A rouge like but its just life
I've recently come across a realization. Nothing mind blowing or even remotely original (I don't think?) but non the less personally profound. And that realization is that most things in life can be approached like a rouge like.
I've been working on my AI personal assistant project for nearly 2 days straight now and its taught me quite a few things:
- I should probably have learned to code before tinkering with anything to do with AI.
- My budget laptop is actually the bestest boy ever and is doing its very best.
- I should approach this project like its a rouge like.
Saying something is a rouge like in the current day is pretty vague so let me clarify the definition I'm going for. When I say a rouge like, I'm referring to a genre of game where you play for very short sessions and then start over whenever you lose or are dealt a bad hand. These types of games may or may not allow you to carry over some progress into a second run but as a general rule of thumb, you only mostly have your previous experiences to go off of in each subsequent run.
This same system of gaining experience and then starting over from scratch can be applied to many projects. Going back to my AI project (It's consumed my life I'm sorry); I'm currently on my 4th attempt. I've carried over the things I've learned in each previous attempt but whenever I run into an issue, instead of fussing over it, I've just begun to start over.
The beauty of this system is that you'll eventually get over the fear of making a worse iteration. Because in a rogue like, sometimes you can go on dozens of runs which progressively get worse. But at the end of the day you still passively learn and improve. And by working at it you eventually get to a point you couldn't have even imagined during that first run.
Similarly, you will realize that the system you implemented the second time around was actually much worse than the first one. And maybe the 3rd attempt broke everything. But by the 5th attempt you've gotten pretty good at error handling. And by the 8th attempt you have an end result that's far better and more efficient than your initial plans.
What this whole rant has been about can be summed up simply as; when in doubt, try again. This isn't a fix-all bandaid however. As with anything you should always go with what you feel is the right approach for you.
With that being said, I hope this helps you see restarting your tasks a bit differently. -Cakes with <3
P.S I have more to yap about the AI assistant; so stay tuned for that!