Do you always achieve at your interests?

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29 Sep 2021, 3:38 am

Do you always succeed at your interests or learn a lot about them?

I have been learning the same interest for a while now and have a problem recalling the information from memory…



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29 Sep 2021, 7:38 am

Yes. That is the case for me.



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29 Sep 2021, 8:20 am

Technic1 wrote:
Do you always succeed at your interests or learn a lot about them? …
Mostly yes: My childhood interest in science led me to a career in electrical engineering.



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29 Sep 2021, 10:13 am

Since around 13, I have been interested in not much of anything.

And I did not achieve anything either

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29 Sep 2021, 10:16 am

Well I'm not an academic by any stretch of the imagination but I'm quite creative.

Once I have a vision of what I want and how I want something to look then I am successful at achieving the results I want.


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29 Sep 2021, 11:39 am

Technic1 wrote:
Do you always succeed at your interests or learn a lot about them?


Some yes, some no.

My interest in science led me to ultimately become a professor running my own lab.

However, my interest in watching sumo wrestling didn't really lead me to any substantial achievement. I competed in an open competition once, but at 118lbs, I only won one of my 6 matches. :lol: I'm still really proud of that 1 win though, so maybe that counts as an achievement.



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19 Dec 2021, 12:44 pm

Definitely an achievement to win one of six matches at such a low weight. What kind of lab do you run?



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19 Dec 2021, 6:31 pm

Not most of the time, but I don't talk about my personal interests very much.


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19 Dec 2021, 6:50 pm

I feel like the interests I hold best and longest are ones that I can't learn everything about, like science and nature or art. I keep learning about them but find there's so much I don't know and I think that's part of the draw for me with them.



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19 Dec 2021, 7:54 pm

Nope! Sometimes I fail miserably at them. My skill isn't an inherent talent, it's down to practice and trying out new approaches. Trial and error.


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19 Dec 2021, 8:04 pm

My most pervasive interest isn't achievable.



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19 Dec 2021, 10:54 pm

I suppose the interest has to be goal-oriented for achieving to be relevent, so a sub-question might be, are interests always goal-oriented? I would imagine a lot of them are.

I'm rather a goal-oriented person, I like to be doing things and getting good results from them. I think I usually get there, more or less. I'm quite a perfectionist so I tend not to see it as much of an achievement unless it practically takes my breath away to behold it. So my gut reaction is that I got a lot of results but that many of them fell short of the mark, but I suppose a more balanced person would say I achieved a lot. I have a lot of trouble giving up on a goal, and my goals can be rather ambitious (though rarely aimed at anything that most people would spend their lives pursuing).



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19 Dec 2021, 11:23 pm

Partially yes -- crafting and related to arts most particularly.

Everything else -- harder to access, too expensive to act upon, no other/still as difficult alternatives, not enough language comprehension to go further/term search unavailable, prefer to keep a secret, not enough room to perform/keep, requires degrees of consistency/headspace I've yet to attain unless I quit my day job and living alone...


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20 Dec 2021, 6:41 pm

Yes and no I like doing crosswords I don't get all of them out,but that doesn't worry me.



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21 Dec 2021, 2:50 am

I wanted to learn programming and software testing. I passed the software testing exam (just) and I turned out to be terrible at programming. I haven't had an interest since. Been feeling a bit meh about the whole computing experience.



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21 Dec 2021, 6:52 am

Technic1 wrote:
Do you always succeed at your interests or learn a lot about them?

I have been learning the same interest for a while now and have a problem recalling the information from memory…

I am not always succesful at hunting.Most of the time I am not.