"When doing darkroom work, I get very bored easily. Especially after 1 hour, I start to feel extremely bored. What would you suggest I do to prevent this? Does focusing on a subject ruin the process?"
"When doing darkroom work, I get very bored easily. Especially after 1 hour, I start to feel extremely bored. What would you suggest I do to prevent this? Does focusing on a subject ruin the process?"
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How You Respond To Boredom Largely Determines Your Success
It means you are not doing the work.
It's like sitting to study, without actually reading anything.
Just looking at the books, and thinking about all the work you have to do.
But if you started reading the first lines, you might realize it's actually interesting.
And very enjoyable!
Boredom is one of the easier barriers for me. Restlessness and tiredness are more difficult IMO. But already it's difficult to answer this because boredom may be associated to different things depending on who you ask. You can either sit it out or do some Tensegrity moves. But chances are you're not focused enough. We're designed to need constant stimulation. Go where it's uncomfortable. Then shut it down. Uncomfortable. Shut it down. Etc But what's most important is that you set your intent. And that is probably not right. You can also imagine DJ giving you a slap why you're wasting your time. Feeling bored? Be bored. Then move on.
IMO what these things mean to you and how you can overcome them are rather personal matters.
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The other possibility is that people don't expect magic to take a lot of hard work. Somehow they expect it ought to be next to no work at all.
And that's because all the other magical systems are pretending.
So in those, it absolutely doesn't take any hard work.
Because it never will!
The other thing I "clawed" out of the air, which felt so thick I had to take my other hand and make sure there wasn't some fabric actually hanging from the ceiling, was someone who said they don't want to learn what we have in here, because I'm a fanatic.
What?
Again, I can think of 2 possible meanings.
First is that you don't have to keep people relentlessly focused on really learning, and ought to let this place be for visiting and sharing.
But you wouldn't hold the trombone club's weekly seminar to that standard. Interrupting it with other activities. That makes no sense at all!
So why are we held to that standard?
It's the same problem. Every other topic that involves magic, is a business. And they love you to hang around because they'll get to take more money from you eventually. If people are hanging out and sharing, it only makes their groupies more loyal.
And the second is the same thing as before. That you assume it's just pretending like everywhere else, and only a fanatic takes his pretend magic too seriously. And certainly only a fanatic expects you to have to work so hard, to learn it.
I did in fact claw something far more interesting out of the air just now, but reddit put a serious limit on comments with all the changes.
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are you skipping?
I haven't made a darkroom yet, but in other contexts boredom is a cue I'm tired, hungry, thirsty, need to exercise, etc - something's distracting me.