• This is kind of how I treat hobbies. I don’t start learning Spanish to be able to speak Spanish for instance, like obviously you might get there. So for me it’s all about the journey and if I get bored and move on to something else that isn’t failure that’s chasing your curiosities and being open to try new things.

    Also ADHD helps.

    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Everytime my German teacher says something like “one day if you’re gonna be in Germany and say it as so and so…”, I always wonder: “should I tell her I don’t really care about pronunciation or stuff like that and am only learning this so I can better understand the memes that show up in my timeline?”

      It’s been a little over a year and the secret is still up.

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      Haha, absolutely with the ADHD. I’m tempted to put a sign on all the shit I constructed this summer that says “the house that adderall built” or something like that, lol.

      It also helps to have multiple projects going, as long as you keep it to a manageable number. Nothing like making progress on hobby project B to procrastinate on hobby project A because you aren’t feeling that one today.