I have not stopped saying wrong things, but I have found that turning noble tasks into people-related problems sometimes goes some of the way, motivation-wise. And so does knowing whether you can quietly work on your own / need someone else to need your work / just don’t care about something.
Like, I wanted to study German, once. I had begun and then dropped it. Now I study it again, because my kid is going to be learning it later in school and we decided (I decided) to start together. Now I don’t have to think that I want to know the language, I only have to think that we need to overcome some verbs by the end of the week. I also get to grouse about how he doesn’t get such simple things.
But I can’t work on my own, I already know it from life.
I have not stopped saying wrong things, but I have found that turning noble tasks into people-related problems sometimes goes some of the way, motivation-wise. And so does knowing whether you can quietly work on your own / need someone else to need your work / just don’t care about something.
Like, I wanted to study German, once. I had begun and then dropped it. Now I study it again, because my kid is going to be learning it later in school and we decided (I decided) to start together. Now I don’t have to think that I want to know the language, I only have to think that we need to overcome some verbs by the end of the week. I also get to grouse about how he doesn’t get such simple things.
But I can’t work on my own, I already know it from life.