I truly feel that the moment I liberated myself from the ideas of ‘doing / learning things for productivity / success’, my relationship with everything changed. Like wdym I can learn typography without becoming a designer, learn to play an instrument without ever performing, and just.. be?

There’s a lot of info about ‘perfecting a craft’ but I’d bet it would help most people to just ‘dabble in a craft’

@skinnylatte Agreed. I struggle with any sort of rote learning or anything that involves making my body do stuff (I'm a bit dyspraxic).

The secret for me is to have low expectations. Good gods, I just played a chord! I can sometimes understand very basic written German! That's amazing! Not especially *useful*, but I'm hella impressed with myself!