What Will This Series Be About?
Welcome, Co-conspirators, the Stratagem’s Archives are now open for perusing. Today I will be starting a series called, “Starting Over.” To put it simply, let me ask a single question.
“What skills or hobbies did you want to learn, but stopped MOSTLY because of an awful experience?”
That is essentially what “Starting Over” is going to be about; returning to pick up the skills and hobbies I gave up on and didn’t pursue for years. All thanks to the experiences I had that convinced me I wasn’t smart enough to learn, or that, because I had no prior knowledge or experience or skill, I shouldn’t have pursued those skills or hobbies in the first place.
As you already know, “The Stratagem’s Archive,” is a place where I document my interests, thought experiments, what I’m learning, what I’ve learned, and what I’ve tried so far. Despite not having credentials, formal education or a mentor, or prior skill and knowledge, I didn’t want the obvious to prevent me from trying again.
Fear, criticism, boredom, lack of money and time and energy, and every other obstacle under the sun already dictates majority of our lives.
As a lifelong learner, a person, and an Autodidact, I am choosing to say, “No More”, and start my journey with picking up the things I gave up on because I “failed to learn it the first time.” (HEAVY AIR QUOTES).
Anyways, each “Starting Over” installment will be different and broken up into parts:
- My previous experiences and what made me stop.
- The resources I’ve chosen to get back into learning.
- And what I’ve learned and made so far to showcase here on the blog.
I am extremely excited to begin this project; I had stood in my own way for a long time, believed people who knew better tell me to give up, but I only have this one life.
- When will I ever get the chance to do anything ever again if I keep letting myself waste time with sulking and wishing?
- When will any of us finally decide that NOW, choosing to try again, to start again, will be the only time we have now?
Whether we are “Starting Over” or trying something new for the first time, we get to decide to:
- shift our perspectives and psychology.
- adjust our relationships with success and failure with learning and ourselves.
- be proactive with our learning anyways.
That is the beauty, and challenge, of being a lifelong learner and a fellow autodidact, polymath, renaissance person, and everything in-between. I have a similar post down below that you could check out, and I’ll see you in the first installment. Thank you.
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