And how it very cleverly tries to get you to stop doing important things like learning from online courses, learning about music, learning about programming. Your mind is short circuited from years of too much stimulation. You are falling into the trap that is the hedonic treadmill. It’s hard to get out of it given the social and technological environment we are in today, but it is possible, and will free you from the place you have been stuck for nearly a decade.
Time will pass regardless of whether you take action or not. So take action. And do not stop.
Remember it’s all about the journey, not the destination. This is where you are and what you do. You are a musician, you are a programmer. These are the processes that you do. You learn and and you apply. You do courses and make things with what you learn. These are what you do now and what you will do 10 years from now. Once you reach those arbitrary destinations or goals you will suddenly become dissatisfied. So stop looking for shortcuts to get to them. This phenomenon happens all the time to people in competitive fields like sports, etc because the thing they were working towards is over now. This causes them depression and misery. Instead of goals you will focus on the process of continuous growth and this will never happen to you. But you must understand that procrastination is a trap that is preventing you from being you, preventing you from reaching your true potential.
85% of people never finish a Udemy course. They burn out because they want fast results. They get excited for the first few minutes of doing it and then the high of the excitement wears off. This is the hedonic treadmill in action. They like the idea of the results and riches and status that the skills learned from the course will get them, not the process of growing itself. Then they feel depressed and miserable wondering why everything is so hard and why they can’t achieve anything. The cycle repeats over and over for millions and millions of people. But we can transcend this by simply understanding how our minds work intuitively. Don’t let the subconscious monkey brain win. You are a conscious human, let your conscious human brain win.
Have a look at this Reddit post: