• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    I feel lucky that I’ve found hobbies where I enjoy the practicing instead of the results. Everything I’ve tried with a goal is mind has eventually been dropped, but the ones that I enjoy regardless of results have stuck around. Eventually I even got good at some.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Thats why im kind of burned out on music. The end goal is usually to get it published and have people listen. Thats very hard. Plus since anyone can just make anything with ai now and people cant tell the difference, its not worth it to make music. A new album is made every minute of every day.

      Its too bad because writing and recording were so fun. But its stupid to do if it goes nowhere and I have 300 unfinished songs on a hard drive.

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Aside from results, it’s also when you run into some issue that wastes time/effort at best and needs to be actively resolved (materials or other process stuff) at worst. Lots of ways that make it worse, too (lack of help, energy, money, transportation etc).

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Nah, but I’d just overcomplicate everything as usual. There’s a reason why every piece of tech I get is hardly working software-wise after I play around with it.

    Like, when learning something, and I start taking notes, I start to overcomplicate how they should look. I keep thinking of more and more stuff to add and cover with my “format”, and then I keep forgetting the proper “format” so I keep going back through the notes just to figure out… I don’t know… how many different headings I have and their applications.
    And then I can’t continue for certain reasons because, say I used red, green and blue pen + yellow, green, pink and orange highlighter, but one of them has run out, and I don’t have a replacement, but I need the red pen because how else am I going to do sections, and now I’ve run out of time.

    And when it comes to the first part, I am too lazy to write a cheatsheet for easier consistency.

    On the other hand, I may not do it, and then I’ll never look at my notes again.

    And look, I am back after over half an hour, I forgot to actually post the comment…

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I am a pro at making things much harder than they ever need to be, then screwing myself by burning out on any project because I had to do it the right, hard way, or anything else is cheating and lazy.