[gabrielrotbart]

Finishing is also important for deciding not to finish.

When you believe that you can finish, and you have difficult past experiences to prove it (to yourself most of all) you can more easily walk away from anything that is not worth finishing, without doubting your motivations for doing so.

[thebear]

Good point. I think the same is true for a lot of things that you do in college. For example, in college, they force you to keep deadlines. If you can do that, consistently, for four years, then later in life, you can occasionally miss a deadline and know that it was for a good reason, and not because you're a slacker and procrastinator.