Philosorapteuse
right on the left wing
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2012
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- 217
- MBTI Type
- INTP
You need to find something that's difficult enough to hold your attention almost indefinitely. Try going for a PhD in theorethical physics aiming for a Nobel Prize, for example. Or climbing every >8000 mountain on earth.
I don't think this works, at least not for me. It's generally not a case of completing things or finding them too easy, it's a case of getting distracted by *other* things. (To be fair, it used to be this - I could see how I'd do it, and knew I could, at which point I'd lose interest, because why would I bother actually doing it at that point? ) Aiming high doesn't help with that - if anything it suffers most from this, as "I've been working on this for three years and it's difficult" is reason enough for me to be distracted by something new! I think the key thing is related but not identical - finding something that changes often enough to hold my interest. That and having multiple things on the go at once so that I can switch around. Maybe I just have a need to feel that I'm bunking off from something.