Yeah I know what you mean – it's so much easier to persist with the feeling of being 'stuck' when you're intrinsically curious/interested in the thing on the other side.
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I really struggle with anything related to statistics, probability, calculus, etc. Anything type theory, programming language design, or art/design related makes me happy though 😅
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I usually feel the same way. I had to take 4 semesters of calculus and it was... bad. hardest part was bringing myself to actually study it. but sometimes even the things I usually enjoy (other parts of math, PL) seem joyless, making it hard to keep a constant pace.
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sometimes I fear that's just capitalism and I'll never accomplish anything 😔
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anyways, I figured I could get better at taking advantage of the moments where I can actually focus and enjoy something
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Yeah I know what you mean! Sorry if I couldn't help all that much! But yeah, I'm in different circumstances to you (dropped out of uni, and am now in industry), but share similar dilemmas… 😔
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Atm I'm doing PL stuff in industry, which should be amazing, but struggling because I feel like I'm so bad at software engineering and constantly getting myself in knots of my own making. Hoping that I can learn how to make better progress though.
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lucky you! I wish I could help you with the software engineering thing, but I'm about to start my journey on that. and software engineering seems specially harder to make progress on, as it's still pretty recent and things are... unstructured, to say the least
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I've wondered about how to get better at that myself, but I don't know. I don't want to e.g. read the "clean X" books, and everything else feels like scattered resources and principles that you have to go and find out yourself
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Yeah I can never stay motivated to read books like that!
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Make yours and everybody else's lives slightly less terrible by having all your programs print out their internal stuff as pictures; 
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