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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Knowing When to Quit?

When it stops being fun, when it becomes something you put too much effort into whatever it is for the reward, and for me personally when I start to feel too defined by something that means it's time to quit. The latter is a problem where I sometimes become too consumed by one sport, hobby, or other and eventually feel it has become too much of my being.

It's time to quit when the absence of what you're quitting is preferred to the continued presence of it.





rob05c  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I sometimes become too consumed

Funny, I have the opposite problem. I feel like I'm not consumed enough by anything. It's not that it stops being fun, I just, find something else interesting (Squirrel!). I feel like I need to pick one hobby and actually master it.