Learn Hardcore Spanish (Spain): Ver pequeños avances hace que me motive y que no me desanime tanto. - Seeing small improvements makes me feel motivated and not get so discouraged.

Breakdown of Ver pequeños avances hace que me motive y que no me desanime tanto.

Why does the sentence start with ver? Can an infinitive really be the subject of a sentence in Spanish?

Yes. In Spanish, an infinitive can act like a noun and be the subject of a sentence.

So Ver pequeños avances means something like seeing small improvements. That whole infinitive phrase is the subject of hace.

This is very common in Spanish:

You could also sometimes see El ver pequeños avances..., but the article el is often omitted.

Why is it hace and not hacen, since avances is plural?

Because the true subject is not just avances. The subject is the whole idea Ver pequeños avances.

That whole infinitive phrase is treated as a singular action or concept, so the verb is singular:

Even though avances is plural, it is only part of the infinitive phrase.

What does hace que mean here?