When a friend is interested enough to express some desire to learn I don’t generally recommend resources that I haven’t even tried myself. Somebody who is less experienced might just ditch Blender for good instead, and I do find that sad (which is why I pay special attention to people who come here frustrated with the donut tutorial there are a lot of those). I spent some time analyzing the situation (creating game assets was not going to be something I could pick up casually in a few hours), researched, made an actual curriculum, and looked for teachers with tutorials that suited me better. So when the donut was frustrating and I felt stupid and as if I wasn’t learning what I felt I needed to know at that point, I ditched Blender for a few days, hit myself over the head for being a disorganized, lazy sheep trusting YT recommendations (I just really fell into this Blender thing without any plan). I’m largely an autodidact and have had to learn how to learn so not to waste a lot of time and effort, and avoid undue stress. Which is why I am quite concerned with the efficacy of teaching methods. So yeah, passion is neither necessary nor sufficient. And I’ve had passion for things I’ve dropped I can feel very intense, infatuation-like desire to learn something, but like most infatuations, it just kinda drifts away or gets replaced by another infatuation. Most of my long-term hobbies started with interest for utilitarian reasons (eg photography, gardening, wood working), only one had what I’d consider a deep passion at the beginning (languages). In my experience my degree of passion isn’t a deciding factor for longevity when I start something new. I pick up new things often, learn a lot in a short time, and usually let them go again relatively quickly – one of my friends says I collect other people’s hobbies – I do that because I am curious, and I like learning/doing new things! But I always have to make hard choices about sticking with something because there is just no time, and that is why I drop so many things. But mine are more alike to me than not – in fact I select for common personality traits, not for common interests, and exploratory curiosity is one of those.įrom the outside one might think I’m like those friends you’re talking about. I mean, not everyone does, but they’re your friends, are they so different in kind from you? It’s of course possible. I myself have always been a curious person by nature and enjoys learning and using / doing new things, so it has always been a bit sad from my perceptive that others don’t feel that way. It’s not that people I consider friends aren’t equally as curious as I am, and don’t enjoy learning, it’s just that their interests lie in different areas, and we all have such a very limited amount of time to devote to learning. My hobbies tend to be quite time-consuming and intensive, and so I don’t expect that any given friend will be interested at all (beyond admiring my stuff, :hopeful grin:), never mind being interested enough to get into it as much as I do. I do have a couple of stories where that worked, and it’s definitely worked for me.īut my social circle, for the most part, does not even show a pique of interest in my long-term hobbies. And those observations don’t lead me to believe initial passion is required, that “pique” can be enough. Most of my observations are based on what my friends get into on their own, not in whether we share any of that – if anything, I’m probably the one who picks up something they’re into, not the other way around. I’m not sure it works the same way for me, but I go about it differently as well. I am happy for you if you have had other experiences with your social circle.
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