One of the biggest threats to motivation when doing DIY repairs is failure.
You have not managed to restore the camera or lens, find the fault, understand its cause, and perhaps you have even damaged something else in the repair attempt.
Hours of work, concentration and hope are in vain, and what remains is a corpse made of metal, glass and plastic on the table.
There are no victories in DIY repairs …
Doubts
about your own abilities arise, you think about giving up DIY because yet another plastic bag with a half-disassembled device ends up in the big box for corpses.
What a contrast such a failure is to the hour of victory when a repair is successful!
There is nothing in between - victory or defeat, gain or loss, triumph or failure.
… and no defeats …
Here you have to counteract energetically
with all your might to maintain motivation.
Because there is no reason to think in these extremes.
In between lies the fertile field of experience, detailed insights and knowledge, and further steps on the repairer's path.
… but always just further steps on the repairer's path to learn, to understand things better and do things better.
Even if a repair is not successful
every repair project means an increase in knowledge, skills and insights.
Here I understood how the shutter is controlled, there I understood another component of a circuit, and while soldering I was able to achieve something that I had not been able to do before.
Here and now I also have the unique opportunity to study the already disassembled camera or lens and identify replacement parts for future projects.
It doesn't matter
whether I get up from the table as a winner or a loser because in reality these categories don't exist.
All that counts are the steps taken on a path that has no end.
And I say this precisely because I am my harshest critic
You have not managed to restore the camera or lens, find the fault, understand its cause, and perhaps you have even damaged something else in the repair attempt.
Hours of work, concentration and hope are in vain, and what remains is a corpse made of metal, glass and plastic on the table.
There are no victories in DIY repairs …
Doubts
about your own abilities arise, you think about giving up DIY because yet another plastic bag with a half-disassembled device ends up in the big box for corpses.
What a contrast such a failure is to the hour of victory when a repair is successful!
There is nothing in between - victory or defeat, gain or loss, triumph or failure.
… and no defeats …
Here you have to counteract energetically
with all your might to maintain motivation.
Because there is no reason to think in these extremes.
In between lies the fertile field of experience, detailed insights and knowledge, and further steps on the repairer's path.
… but always just further steps on the repairer's path to learn, to understand things better and do things better.
Even if a repair is not successful
every repair project means an increase in knowledge, skills and insights.
Here I understood how the shutter is controlled, there I understood another component of a circuit, and while soldering I was able to achieve something that I had not been able to do before.
Here and now I also have the unique opportunity to study the already disassembled camera or lens and identify replacement parts for future projects.
It doesn't matter
whether I get up from the table as a winner or a loser because in reality these categories don't exist.
All that counts are the steps taken on a path that has no end.
And I say this precisely because I am my harshest critic
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