Topic: How does one find new hobbies when you suck at everything?
+Anonymous A — 8.8 years ago #48,928
I just cannot find any passion, interest, or intrigued in video games, or anything else. It feels like I am just going through the motions of life without ever doing anything in it. My upbringing was overly sheltered leading to a lack of real life friends. Perhaps I should just self-euthanize.
+Anonymous B — 8.8 years ago, 38 minutes later[T] [B] #530,245
No one is good when they start out, it takes hard work and perseverance to really get good at something. The young prodigies found out something they liked and were lucky enough to have an environment to nurture their growth very early on; something the rest of us commoners don't have.
However, this doesn't mean you should expect things to happen either. A lot of motivational garbage is like this. They romanticize life and believe that it will "show you a path". Perhaps, but do you want to risk losing another 5, 10 or 15 years just waiting? My advice is to attack it systematically, make a list. Every hobby, interest and goal you've ever had write it on there and then give each of them a week. Read a book on the subject, watch a youtube video, take a class. Take away the mind's ideal vision of the craft(i.e. the end result) and replace it with real experience(i.e. the hard work), eventually you'll come back to a few of them out of your own volition.
If this fails too then you can always fall back on the standard milieu of life skills: Cooking, auto repair, sports, that sort of thing. It's all just a safety valve anyway so that you don't go crazy anyway and there are people out there who enjoy only doing the bare minimum. Nothing wrong with that either.
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·Anonymous A (OP) — 8.8 years ago, 6 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #530,246
@previous (B)
I tried learning a language and just lost motivation even though I want to learn. I question if I could spend a week on something.
·Anonymous B — 8.8 years ago, 10 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,269
@previous (A)
Well then language learning isn't for you then. IMO the only languages you need to know are your mother tongue and the lingua franca(right now English) otherwise dump that time into something else.
+Ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 8.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,270
R u me
+Syntax — 8.8 years ago, 25 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,273
@previous (Ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
You now have hobbies which R result of your loss of something
Something lost something gained.
As a kid I sure had some super hobbies - Fireworks Explosives Bombs and Ham Radio - After getting married other hobbies
Hobbies good no hobbies not so much so good
+Anonymous E — 8.8 years ago, 22 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,277
@previous (Syntax)
Syntax: expert on fireworks.
·Syntax — 8.8 years ago, 12 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,278
@previous (E)
Expert? LOL
It is possible to build a couple of spectacular fireworks. NOT Practical or cost effective to put on even a 5 minute show
I was lucky nuff to have a relative who manufactured Aluminum so Aluminum in powder was free and totally available but damn the managers never did ask me why I needed such
+Z !!RlV8YumGz — 8.8 years ago, 4 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,307
Been depressed long?
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