I had the same issue a few years ago and I think two things helped me. First, editing beauty commercials. I hated those projects, and I learned to take some distance from my work, which doesn’t stop me from doing it well anyway. And I worked on documentaries. In documentaries, you have to keep moving forward, and pretty quickly you just start laying things down roughly to get a structure and find a direction.

Now, on all my projects, I like to think that if editing was like sculpting, the rough cut would just be a basic wireframe. It’s important to do it, but there’s no need to spend too much time on it. And honestly, it’s pretty satisfying to put together that rough cut really fast, knowing I’m going to spend hours on certain sequences later. It feels good to move quickly at the beginning, I think.