Refusing to learn any new skill unless you’re immediately good at it, is a form of self-sabotage. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, as much as the results. Be humble, be teachable, and always keep learning, because life never stops teaching.
It is a sad thing how many people just never try because they weren't good at something immediately. Like did someone criticize them and make them feel bad about it?
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For me is that im just very pessimistic so when i done do well right away i get discouraged and give up. idk if that applies to others though. I would love to code to mod games or make a game but its hard and so its hard to stay working on it when im getting no results.
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What happened to me was I was told since I was like 4 that I was an exceptional, talented child. I took it for granted, thinking everything I did, even just breathing, was going to be good and perfect and worthy of praise. Going to high school and not having to study because of-
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-my good memory and general lack further sabotages me, because I never learnt discipline or structure. I would read the things five minutes before a test and ace it pretty easily. Sadly, as soon as I went to art school, where I have no way to avoid the hours or work that drawing-
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Praise can have as much of a negative result as criticism, as some others have said. When a parent really focuses on “the win” and praises “the win”, the child can quickly learn to dismiss any other result as worthless or worse. The child is likely to learn that giving up is-
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-preferable to setting themselves up for anything other than a “first place”. So not giving a serious effort, procrastination, and self sabotage are internally safer than actually trying and getting a “third place”. Generally the way to counteract this for the parent to really-
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