[adversaryIdiot]

I've become a 'handyman' in the way that this article alludes to. A big problem that I come across when saying "yes" to every problem that peaks my curiosity is that Ive become mentally drained.

I end up spending a lot of time and energy hacking away at problems. The problem is, it seems like my mind isn't resilient enough to keep up with it. After a certain point there comes an onset of fatigue, frustration, and just general feelings of discomfort that drones on in the back of my conscious.

I guess this is to be expected. The muscles of my mind have been overexerted and need rest. A remedy to this is to "go with the flow" of my mood/feelings. Which sometimes contradicts my undying feeling of curiosity. It becomes a balancing act between the two.

I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[JohnFen]

My overall philosophy about attaining skills is that for most of them, I am content with learning something well enough that I could muddle through if I had to do it for real. I'm not shooting for becoming an expert at all.

I aim for expertise in the much smaller subset of skills that are of genuine value to me.

I aim at being a "jack of all trades, master of a couple".

[epolanski]

I used to suffer of the same and then went with the time limiting: I can't do that stuff on weekends or after 7 pm, I stick to it and it became a habit in few weeks time.