@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
@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)