Hi. I wonder how do you keep following through on your ideas/goals/topics that you want to research (in specific field or some niche idea/interest) and not burn out/get bored and forget about them altogether?
I’ve found I often don’t have enough time to spend on an interest right away, and then I put it in my todo list/special folder in obsidian to check on later (article, wikipedia page, a video, movie or a book), and then it just sits there. When I open the list I start to think that I need to fix this pile of stocks and start going one by one on them, but by that time they are no longer an interest to me.
Say I got interested in researching history of WWII and Nazi regime because I watched a movie/read a book about that. Then, I just go on to the internet to find out more about it. At the moment I’m thinking “I dont have enough time for all that”, so I just get some books, articles, videos about it and stuck it in a file named “to research”. Later on, I’m terrified of even looking at that file, it seems large, and when I open it, I’m bored from second one because I “forced” myself to do this, instead of flowing inside of it, like I did with the movie.
I guess being dilligent is very hard for me. I feel like the problem mainly lies in my “fear of time” more than a spurred attention span. But I’m thinking about how can I keep up with irl things like work/chores/whatever while tagging myself with hobbies instead of being either too chaotic or too “formal” without any interest left behind? How do you do that?
Through the last year I’ve been trying to have a very loose list of maybes, instead of real todos. I treat them like suggestions and try to not force myself into doing anything just because it is in the list. Every now and then I feel like one random item of the list is a good idea to take a look.
Yeah sounds good. It always gets messy when I try to force myself into something
That’s why I do it like that, because I don’t want to pick something that I’m not motivated to do. If it is by obligation then there’s not much choice. But if it is for fun you can have more flexibility.
Tangent: what’s your review of Obsidian?
Notes application on steroids, 99.99% of time functionality other than that is a timewaste, like building those Zettelkasten kind of things, its just stacking things on top of each other to forget about them
I guess this is why I like long form audio content so much, I can listen to it in the background and still get chores done.
Do you feel like you’re absorbing stuff? I mean, stuff like podcasts, sure, but anything other than a fun chatter, like an audiobook, is completely lost on me. I thought away too easily
Not 100%, but more than if I decided not to listen because I’m worried I’m not absorbing everything.
I wouldn’t listen to the War and Peace audiobook, but something like the Hardcore History podcast? Yeah, for sure.
