>>33349086 (OP)Stop relying on "wanting to do it" as your reason for doing it. You might think that's paradoxical, it's not. The way you form actual skills or gain actual knowledge is by doing things you want to do even when you don't want to do them, especially when you don't want to. Real skills and knowledge, even in context of a hobby, involves a lot of tedium, a lot of boredom, mistakes, repetition, and most of all perseverance. It requires long-term commitment, which necessarily means that there are going to be times when you don't feel like it, or when other things seem more enticing, or when you feel like you've lost the plot entirely. Motivation isn't a feeling, a surge of free energy you're ready to give, motivation is the decision to do something and the will to stick with it if for no other reason than you've decided to. Make it a promise to yourself and stand on principle to keep it. Passive bullshit like shows, that's hard because you aren't really making measurable progress, nor are there real goals behind it; I don't want to be an elitist about your hobbies, but I don't personally consider time-wasting inactive distractions a hobby, they're just an interest. If you're playing sports, that's a good hobby and the perfect chance to do just this, because you can push yourself in it, make measurable progress, and it has secondary benefits in being exercise. When lifting weights, the vast majority of muscle growth occurs in the final few reps of a set or the last sets of a session. Those are the hardest ones to do, you're sore and tired and you just want to quit and rest, but if you don't, if you ignore the signals your body is sending you and push through the hardest parts, you gain the biggest rewards. Apply that in everything you do, push through boredom, indifference, even loss of faith or interest, and you will not only stick with it but come away with more than what you started.
