You have a bunch of different projects on the go. They’re all pulling for your attention at the same time, and you can’t seem to finish any of them. When you do get a little free time to work on something, you can’t decide where to focus… And you make…
Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: Navigating the Perfectionism Trap
Perfectionism is the enemy of the multi-passionate creative. Of course, it’s a problem for any creative, but for the serial hobbyist, perfectionism can be particularly stifling. Why? The tendency to deep-dive into many topics or hobbies often means that perfection is out of the question. This can makes us question…
Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: What Keeps Me Writing
My last post was largely about the struggle to write concisely, specifically in blogging. As I wrote that, I was examining my motivation and realized that while the skill of brevity and the end goal of “being useful” to a reader is important, what I was really interested in was…