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Starting hobbies and not finishing

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  • Before I start, i think that I may have Hugh functioning autism but have never been diagnosed.

I have some hobbies that I still do or have done for a number of years when I was able to get to a class, but I seem to start some new things, do them for a while and then just cannot seem to put in anymore effort. Like I am interested in Japan and Japanese novels, films and series depending on the genre, so I started learning Japanese and thoroughly learnt most of the katakana symbols (got really into it) but then stopped. I learnt italic calligraphy but really needed to do a lot of work to get better, but I haven't bothered to carry on. I also started learning modern calligraphy, but only learnt a few lower case letters then gave up. I also started (paid for) an online yoga teacher training course and worked through a portion of it before not bothering anymore.

I don't like the fact that I have started these things and not bothered anymore, but I don't have the will power or motivation to pick them up again.

I wonder why this is?

Is anyone else like this?

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  • Yeah I can get like that too. So I write down my intention for learning something that's interesting to me, and then when my interest starts to wane, I look back on why I wanted to learn it in the first place, and what I wanted to do with it once I finished learning.

    I know that practice is not going to be great all the time, because it can be like fighting against yourself, especially if you want to do something else, so I try to concentrate on that one task, and I break it down into smaller pieces, so that I'm more likely to finish. 

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  • Yeah I can get like that too. So I write down my intention for learning something that's interesting to me, and then when my interest starts to wane, I look back on why I wanted to learn it in the first place, and what I wanted to do with it once I finished learning.

    I know that practice is not going to be great all the time, because it can be like fighting against yourself, especially if you want to do something else, so I try to concentrate on that one task, and I break it down into smaller pieces, so that I'm more likely to finish. 

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