The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something
I'm envious of people who are good at being bad. It's a skill that lets you choose how to develop yourself.<p>I've noticed that it's really difficult for me to be bad at something, by which I mean that of my brain hasn't decided that it <i>really</i> needs to keep doing something, I gravitate towards things that I'm already decent at even if I don't really feel like I enjoy it.<p>Doing even things that I might initially enjoy quickly becomes extremely stressful if I can't observe myself making progress. Forcing things works for a while, but is not sustainable.<p>Sometimes there's also this weird disconnect between what <i>I</i> want to work on and the things my unconscious brain wants to work on, and that does get stressful as well.