When people envision other people quit furthering their ability in a certain skill, they usually see them trying once and exclaiming “This shit is too hard, fuck this”. But after I began building skills and interests hardcore (post-RP) I’ve begun to believe that its more complex then that.

I think most people see a skill they want to have and use their vision of them getting good at it and their initial motivation to get themselves up to a point where they start to feel good about their abilities, they start to feel so good that their ego kicks in and start to believe that further progression is going to be easy, I refer to this time as the moments before reaching the peak. They can’t see the next much taller mountain in front of the mountain they are about to peak. However, once they reach the peak and basked in the knowing that they just climbed a mountain, they see the next much taller, harder to climb mountain their emotions fade away and they may feel negative, in addition their ego about that skill they were working on gets killed (quite painful but necessary to become great at things). Its at this point that most people quit practicing a new skill.

But the key to skill building is not obsessing about conquering the mountains in the infinite range of mountains that is involved in improving a certain skill but rather the process of self-actualization and self-improvement that you undergo that enables you to climb taller and taller mountains. After a certain point when you reach a peak and see another much taller peak, instead of reacting with frustration and loss of positive emotions you instead feel invigorated with the possibility of further improvement.