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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
"discipline warriors"
i never understood them. I have to be happy and looking forward to doing something or it's just not happening. |
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I don't want to put a value statement or judgment on that - it is what it is, but other people are going to judge you for it and maybe a lot of us are internalizing that judgment, especially in the U.S. which is such a judgmental society. D.
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
The idea that you have to stick with something was ingrained into me at an early age. It's hard. But you need to have the attitude that you just have to do it.
If you don't or if you can't.. I actually dont think you will end up sticking with anything. Everything gets hard. Doing something long term means there are days that you will not want to do it. That's just life. There is no way to ALWAYS want to do something.
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I've tried various hobbies and they almost always come to a screeching halt after a while. I just get bored with them. Some of them have cost me a lot of money to get into (golf, collecting guns, cross-country skiing). I don't know that I'll ever step on a golf course again, yet I have a nice set of expensive clubs and accessories sitting in my garage. I get bored with some of them because they require skill, time, and a lot of effort: Golfing. I keep the equipment because - you never know - I may get back into it. I just lose interest in these hobbies real fast. With some of them, I'll buy the equipment (photography) and think I'll read that super technical/thick owners manual to learn how to use it but I never get around to it (because I don't have the patience to read everything and I procrastinate). Then the equipment sits in its bag in my closet and gets used only once a year. Oh, well. Here's hoping I don't get into collecting Llamas.
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
Honestly psycho, I think your expectations of yourself are too high. From the video you showed, you are already good at yoyoing.
And practicing daily for 20 weeks, this is way more than the average NT could do already. I imagine there are some pros or extreme amateurs that can do more but those people are well above the norm for even a NT. It's like not being able to be happy with yourself unless you can train like an Olympian and win the gold medal. The standards are too high. Maybe you are burning yourself out with your extreme expectations. Hobbies are supposed to be for fun. Not to become excellent at. I myself rotate interests. I'm super interested in something for a while, play it a ton, and then get bored and find something else that I become super interested in l, play to an extreme, and then get bored of. I actually usually cycle back to old hobbies but it can take years, even a decade sometimes. And it's fine so long as I have some interest most of the time. My only constant interests are watching TV and playing on the Internet lol. |
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Maybe the keys to developing lasting hobbies can be put down to a few basic principles. 1. When thinking of starting a hobby, look back over your life to see what you've always had an interest in. If you've always loved drawing and appreciating any form of artistry for a good while, wanting to try out painting, or coloring in gorgeous adult coloring books, there's a good chance this new hobby would stick around. However, if this hobby is something out in left field and you have no prior appreciation for or interest in anything close to this new thing, look at it a little more closely. 2) ADDers love the new and the shiny, go big or go home, things requiring a lot of time and talent - nothing wrong with that. However, consider the cost of taking on this new hobby in time, energy, focus, and talent required to engage in at the level you think you want to get to. If it's a coloring book and a set of metallic gel pens, we're not talking a big splurge. If you end up ditching the hobby, you won't be out much money, and you can pass on the items to someone who will use them. 3) What are the space requirements for this hobby, and will that work for you? Again, our good old coloring book and markers will take up almost no real estate, but some hobbies require much more space and supplies to keep clean, organized and in good condition. 4) If you are like me and almost prefer the shopping for all the spiffy new items a fresh hobby will require, create an Amazon wish list for these things you want to purchase. Just leave it be for a few days. If you keep ady new items to that list, and you keep adding new things, keep thinking about engaging in that hobby, repeatedly find yourself wishing that you were doing that hobby, those are good signs. When you can afford, buy a small item or two, something that will help you make a good head start on things. If you keep working on that hobby regularly and have the money and the need for another, buy it. Just go slowly and buy things as you actually find yourself needing. 5) Set aside regular time for your hobby. Do it for fifteen minutes a day (or as much time as you need to finish one decent chunk of work), as many days a week as are practical. You can do a little art every day, or aim to go to a yoga class twice a week. Whatever is appropriate. 6) A hobby should stretch us some and challenge us a little, but still be fun and make us feel joy.
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
Make yourself do it every day or switch off if you can’t do it that day
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
The one hobby I never quit is Cooking and drawing. Those two are my passions. I made a career out of cooking and the drawing is something I just do to keeping my hands busy and mind clear. other things come and go and sometimes come back.
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
Probably the only hobbies of mine which I do consistently are solving math questions (because that's how I make a living) and browsing internet forums. Others are just come and go, though my interests still stick to more than half of them.
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
My wife & I joke that I don't have hobbies, I have obsessions
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I'm still at it. In fact I'm more into it now then I have been.
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
That was really cool, psychopathetic!
It looks like you've been practicing a lot -- well executed! (I love the names of some of the tricks, too.) |
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Re: How to NOT quit hobbies?
How are you doing, psychopathetic? What tricks have you been working on?
I saw this article today and thought of this thread: "Why Can’t I Commit to a Hobby?" by Katie Heaney, 31 Jan 2020, in the "Science of Us" section of The Cut (It wasn't necessarily such an illuminating article, but seemed a propos, nonetheless.) |
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