Is being fickle a disease?
I often have things I want to do besides work during a certain period of time, such as learning a foreign language, cooking, playing the guitar, learning a new technology, and so on. At first, I would enthusiastically search for tutorials, strategies, watch various videos, and ask others for recommendations to avoid unnecessary detours... ...
After some time of gathering information, when I think I am fully prepared, ready to start, I hesitate. Or maybe when I just start something, I encounter many problems that need to be solved on my own, and numerous difficulties become obstacles in my path. Many things have good intentions and are beneficial to myself, but at the beginning, they pour cold water on my confidence, and this situation often occurs.
When memorizing vocabulary, I can only memorize words starting with the letter "a";
When learning a new technology, I often only find introductory materials and nothing more;
After a few weeks of exercising, it comes back because it is difficult to sustain;
When solving algorithm problems, I become familiar with a few questions, but new questions often seem difficult, so I don't feel like doing them anymore.
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I tried to analyze the reasons: at the beginning of each task, I set a big goal in my heart. After completing the task, not only does my body feel tired, but my mind also feels exhausted. When I start the task again, both my body and mind resist, and in the end, it fails to continue.
Recently, I read the second edition of "The Dark Time" by Liu Weipeng, which gave me some inspiration. The most difficult part of doing something is starting and continuing. Quitting too early is the root cause of all failures.
Maintaining interest is a key factor in doing something. But what should we do if we seem to have no interest in anything?
I think, to keep doing something, we need to stay in a comfortable state. Think about the things we do every day that are not necessary for survival. Don't they make us feel nothing or even comfortable, at least not uncomfortable, for example:
After a meal, it is customary to take a walk.
Check the hot search topics every day and see what happened today.
Take a nucleic acid test every day (I don't feel anything, but some people feel that nucleic acid tests have affected their lives).
These daily routines are not based on our interests, but why can we continue to do them? I conclude that these things do not invade your life and keep you in a relatively comfortable state. Based on this conclusion, I can do each task in a relatively comfortable state, memorize only 5 words a day, solve only one problem a day, learn to cook one dish a week...
But isn't this approach very slow? But if you think about it seriously, these vocabulary memorization, guitar learning, and technology learning, if you spend 10 minutes on them every day, from a few years ago until now, I have already done them very well.
So, start with a small amount and turn ripples into waves.