[locallost]

I agree with this. Some other reasons could be:

1) you are afraid you will fail

2) you actually don't want to do that project. This could be a lot of different reasons: e.g. you get excited about ideas, but quickly lose interest etc.

They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

[grvdrm]

That last line is so true - sounds like a coping mechanism. Reminded me of this Substack post:

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/notes-about-notes

Edit: coping

[itsmemattchung]

> They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

Can you elaborate on this? Curious what you mean about how (in this instance) the OP is writing about themselves?

[locallost]

I meant I was writing about myself, these are my typical issues.