learning a new hobbie
What is a professional, anyway?
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
Perfectionism is, at its core, about trying to earn approval. Most perfectionists grew up being praised for achievement and performance (grades, manners, rule following, people pleasing, appearance, sports). Somewhere along the way, they adopted this dangerous and debilitating belief system: I am what I accomplish and how well I accomplish it. Plea
... See moreBrené Brown • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Now apply this to your brain. You may get very used to sharing new skills with your close friends but then try to share them with your family and freak out. This doesn’t mean the skills were garbage. It just means you’re not used to the new situation yet.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
When you learn something new for the first time you flail miserably at it, but eventually you identify your weaknesses and over time the process toward solution becomes almost instinctual. Things get better and easier, and somehow you’ve developed into this whole new person who could do the hard things you once dreaded, now effortlessly. I find thi... See more
all these things that I've done
Not all hobbies need to become hustles.
Hobbies are the first way we can integrate CALM activities into our lives. The defining characteristic of a hobby is that it’s low stakes; there’s simply no way to win or lose a hobby, nor to turn it into a business. Very few of us are likely to discover in adulthood that we’re professional-standard painters