Work & study habits
What's the hardest part of starting a big piece of work?
There is no correct answer to this one. In Hivemind you are guessing which of these 5 answers most other people picked.
The options
- The first sentence
- Choosing where to begin
- Putting the phone down
- Facing how big it is
- The blank page itself
Why this one divides people
Starting is a strange kind of difficulty, because nothing is actually stopping you. For some the blockage is physical: an empty document staring back with a blinking cursor, daring you. Others say the trouble is choice - there are eleven reasonable places to begin, and picking one feels like ruling out the other ten. A large group blames the small glowing distraction within arm's reach. And some are honest enough to name the real thing: the moment you finally look at the whole job and understand how many hours it will eat.
Answers recorded so far
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In the game itself you always see a split, because a seeded baseline stands in until recorded answers outweigh it. That estimate is ours, so it is never published here as crowd data.