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Well yeah, how else do you learn skills? You’re not gonna be good at something if you don’t push your boundaries.
I get that, I think the aim of the meme is more like, “I’ve never done any woodworking before, I’m gonna start by design and build a super intricate entertainment system designed for heavy load with multiple interlocking pieces”
You gotta push yourself to learn but there’s definitely starter projects and non-starter projects
So it’s funny that you bring that up, because I spent my shower trying to figure out what I can do with the good condition studs leftover from de-finishing my basement. Ideas ranged from “a table should be simple enough” to “I can empty the garage and turn one wall into a workbench with integrated shelving.”
I have a reciprocating saw, a miter saw, a drill, and zero experience. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
This is just “learn by doing” 🤷
Works for me all the time. That’s how I learned parametric/generative 3D design, circuit board design, and embedded rust programming simultaneously. Ended up making this:
https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=0Qv9AU8Hxbu_6Red
…but it’s just the latest in a long line of “ambitious projects that you currently don’t have the skills to complete.” Some worked out, some didn’t. I learned a shitton every time though (which is good because I’m a terrible traditional student 😁)
yooo I also made my own keyboard, tho I used ergogen and ZMK so it’s not nearly as ambitious as your project
Your adhd allows a “learn by doing” mode?
Mine blocks me by starting & outlining the ‘ambitious project’ just for the very outlining process to birth a myriad of non-projects to kinda “learn by doing” small aspects of the main project bcs the main (first of it’s kind for me) protect cannot possible be imperfect … ofc whilst knowing perfectly how shitty it will inevitably be and that that is fine since the goal is to have it working & inevitably learn from it.
So I just learn without ever starting the actual project.
You can pretend much more easily that your project “isn’t unfinished”* if it has the status of “not yet stated” … Its not technically true, just easier to pretend.
And a project never started can live in and continuously clog your mind for even longer than a an already started one that at least somewhat satisfied your curiosity.
I guess it depends on you. I’m not sure if it’s ADHD thing or not, but I just love researching random things (and forget them next day) and I guess that’s what makes me decent also at what I do for living.
Someone asks a weird question in our friends WhatsApp group, and I end up investigating it for 2 hours and spamming the chat with everything I find - often annoying the people in that very chat =D
And that transfers well into starting a project I have initially no fucking clue about
One of the things that I went over with my therapist is getting out of analysis paralysis. Sometimes, just picking something from the high-level outline and going for it will help.
