self gripe 

ugh I just wish I had cool skills

idk would be nice to know how to do sick kick flips or something

but I hate practicing things bc it’s repetitive orz

re: self gripe 

@variance Idk if it'd work the same for you, but this is why podcasts and audiobooks have become like 99% of my passive-media consumption

Watching/reading/etc stuff: Mm this is dull, wanna do something else
Crafting stuff: Mm this is dull, wanna do something else

(Took a while to learn it's better than "not at all" after art/animation/etc books lionizing hyperfocus-on-task as the one true valid creative state x.x)

re: self gripe 

@variance (wow I managed to miss including my intended point by a mile, which was "I only find I can do repetitive stuff while listening to something else")

re: self gripe 

@pastelbat oh yeah, that’s the only way I manage to do anything repetitive, but the issue I guess is that lots of skills I want to learn don’t allow for multitasking like that

(I tried to read books while doing piano exercises as a kid but that didn’t work out v well and my teacher always complained at how I wasn’t focusing enough on how I was playing lol)

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re: self gripe 

@variance yeah I absolutely run into this and find it very restricting on "stuff I can do" vs "stuff I'd actually like to be doing" ><

re: self gripe 

@pastelbat ugh yeah, I sympathize

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