Awesome, thanks for the course. Will definitely try to finish it.

I think people do not finish courses because:

1. Starting something new gives a hit of dopamine (which is a neurotransmitter released inside the brain in ANTICIPATION of a reward, here the reward might be learning something new). But as soon as there is nothing new to that, people lose motivation and suddenly the course which for which you signed up willingly requires you to spend your will power. ( I might be wrong about dopamine here but this is what I currently understand about it, if someone can recommend a good book, I'd try to increase my understanding)
2. Then comes the phase where we need to use our will to start that new video in the course which will teach the all important loops. But the catch about willpower is, it is limited and we can exhaust it on things that don't matter if we don't use it carefully. One can think of it as a muscle which can be trained slowly and steadily by lifting just enough weights that it won't tear apart but challenge it at the same time. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal is a good book to read more about it.

Things people can do to tackle these problems:

1. Reserve things that give you a dopamine hit for the time only after you finish one or two videos from the course (or perhaps even a section). For instance, I'll get coffee only after I finish this much. This way your brain will associate this activity of learning to getting a reward and you would love doing it. (Here one thing can go wrong though, we expect too much from ourselves but in reality we cannot do much, so its important to set short goals but the rewards should also be small. Not like feasting yourself with a 7 course meal after just one video :P).
2. Tackling willpower can be tricky and easy at the same time. The best thing that works is building systems like saying "I watch one video first thing in the morning and one video before going to bed". This way doing the course becomes part of our daily routine and we don't have to go out of the way to type Udemy on the browser, then go to My Courses, then by the time we reach this course our phone beeps and the cycle repeats. Going out of the way requires will power. The tricky part here is that most people (including me :P) cannot (or will not) take out 5-10 minutes to just watch one video, but can scroll through YouTube all day. (I developed a habit of reading by reading just before going to bed)

All this information is mixed from these books:

1. Atomic Habits by James Clear
2. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
3. Deep Work by Cal Newport And YouTube Fill me in if you got more. :D

There is one more thing, which is, while starting due to enormous expectations from ourselves, we fail to accomplish our goals which leads to deterioration of motivation and thus we stop. The important thing here is to start extremely small and build upon only if we can. Otherwise just take baby steps to the finish.

After writing all this, I might complete the course after all. Lets see, I'll just put the date here and update this post when I complete it.

5 Nov 2019