Why personal projects are important ?

What I believe is that every person, especially students, should always try to work on their own personal projects, or at least have something of their own to build all the time. It is okay to work for someone else, earn money, work on a company project, or do client work but I feel it is more important to build something of your own. Not for money, not for views, not for fame, but because every person is unique.

Everyone is raised differenty, everyone thinks differently, we all have different perspectives, and we all see the world in our own way. But when we only follow orders, let others decide what is right for us, or simply do what everyone else is doing, even if it is right we slowly kill that individuality. We lose the unique thinking that we can offer to society. That is why I feel personal projects are important.

In a personal project, you are responsible for everything coming up with the idea, spending days or weeks thinkng, testing, failing, trying again, and making every decision yourself. This teaches you much faster, makes you a more responsible person, and more importantly, it keeps your brain active in a way normal tasks never do. There is no boss above you telling you what to do. You have full control, and whatever happens, good or bad, is completely your responsibility.

Personal projects are like a treasure box. From the outside, they may look small or difficult, but when you start and take full responsibility from start to finish, you learn more than you ever would by only working on someone else’s idea.

Personally, my own projects taught me one important thing failing is not bad. Failure is not a weakness. It is more valuable than always winning. Most of the reasons we feel like quitting projects is because things don’t work the way we want. Sometimes it takes days, sometimes months. And the only thing that can complete that project is your own determination and your will to overcome any odds.

I am not an old person with decades of experience, but whatever I wrote comes from my observations, my interactions with people, and applying these ideas practically on myself.

Submitted December 03, 2025 at 08:28AM by deepak365days https://ift.tt/oYjfZbS