[stepvhen]

You sound like you need a hobby. Have you tried baking? Like, get a breadmaking book from a ised book sttore, read it carefully, and make bread. Its super rewarding, not that difficult, you end up with a finished product (that you can eat!) and its not math or programming.

Also, read literature anyway. Learn how to by doing it. If a novel is daunting read short stories (particularly Jorge Luis Borges or Cesar Aira). Reading wasn't important in my life until about 2 years ago, and since then books have improved my life dramatically. Its low cost, high yield, fully analog, ubiquitous, and enriching. Just learning new words makes it easier to form new concepts in your head and be better at stuff like math and programming. Seriously I cant suggest reading enough.

But really, this sounds more serious than just boredom or ennui. I side with Cozumel, and might suggest looking into a counsellor.

[mattchamb]

I love baking as a hobby. While programming used to be my hobby, I find it can't be both my hobby and career without driving me insane. Baking has the iterative trial and error improvement factor, while also producing a product that everyone enjoy without having it explained. As a bonus, women love a guy who can bake.

[jwhitlark]

Making chocolate is another one. Not as hard as I thought it would be, but lots of room for care and precision.

[oggyhead]

Thank you for the reply. I do appreciate the list of thoughts especially how learning new words to help in forming new concepts from math and the likes. I do cook and bake as a hobby though not as actively as I should. Will go down the short story route as you suggested