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constructive pessimism

Believing one's own work is not good enough or that something in their work is missing, causing them to revise or even restart their work.
A writer had completed five pages of a script before feeling that their story just wasn't good enough, and so constructive pessimism struck them as they searched for that missing oomph.
by joob1 January 11, 2022
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