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I also really love learning Chinese!
My friends think its passion, but really I just forced the medicine down until it became habit, then a permanent fixture, and now is familiar and relaxing. I love learning new things but the "passion" idea is really just me exploring the nuanced depths of a topic I now know a lot about, and that seems to be fulfilling enough that it can masquerade as "passion" to outsiders.
My friends think its passion, but really I just forced the medicine down until it became habit, then a permanent fixture, and now is familiar and relaxing. I love learning new things but the "passion" idea is really just me exploring the nuanced depths of a topic I now know a lot about, and that seems to be fulfilling enough that it can masquerade as "passion" to outsiders.
Could you elaborate? Are you eluding to software engineering?
All my passions are either commercially not useful or things I am not talented enough to be in front. Example: martial arts and boxing. I really loved it but I am naturally very nonathletic so I was never be able to hang with the top people which is frustrating considering the effort I put into it. Same with hiking and photography. I like doing it but somehow I lack the artistic ability to stand out. I have passion f…
My dad used to always tell me if you cant be the best dont even bother. Even though it was his primary sport, since we are asian, he wouldnt teach me to play basketball because I couldnt be the best. I 100% disagree with his philosophy.
In life Ive never been the best at anything, it takes too much work. However I have been pretty good at a lot of things and enjoy the learning and the doing. I have had a lot of hobbies and I guess my passion is learning new hobbies.
When your happiness depends on other's judgement of you, you will never be able to consistently be happy.
I have run my own company for 18 years, this year we will just hit 8 million in revenue. Yet, many of my friends have built and sold companies for 10+ million in just a handful of years. Im clearly not the best, but who cares? I have freedom to do other things I love and enjoy my work even though I would rather be building computer games.
At my company we try to help discover what the company can do to help people live the life they love. It is surprisingly harder than you might think for people to listen to their own voice because it is drowned out by all the voices around them telling them what they should love and what they should do.
I was a naturally talent kid for music. Even without any education I could get a instrument and figure it out. Sure, that wouldn't me make a great player, as that involves a lot of dedication. But we were very poor and couldn't afford the instrument or the musical education(or the time to, as music rarely becomes something profitable in one's life) and I instead focused on at least having a job. So I studied computer science now and live abroad. Good choice.
So, I've bought a guitar around the time she died and started playing. Definitely not playing as much as I should to become very good, but enough to talk about it being a hobby. I also enjoy it very much. I think that if I would try to become good(as I had to, for other things, in exchange of money), it would lose the fun of it. So I don't try hard.
My other hobby is reading. I want to learn how to speak German(I can speak other 3 languages), as I live in Germany and have been trying to improve myself in that language consistently. I'm not such a good language learner, but I've been consistently studying them throughout my life.
Another hobby I would like to take on, maybe once I get more confortable with life in Germany(and the language) is to paint. I can draw quite well but got bored of it. I had plenty of fun painting at school and some other occasions. I really like color and abstract art. It is very relaxing and might help me to relieve some stress from my day job as a software dev.
After the world fell apart around me. Little dramatic, but here’s my shitty life story as fast as possible. My girlfriend of just a few days shy of 6 years left me, day before my birthday. For another graphic designer that was mildly...successful? Whatever, I failed as a designer. We just moved to the west coast. Zero family or friends. I couldn’t find a job. Was a truck driver for a while. Quit that. Lost my apartme…