How to get passionate at something?

f0olyco0ly

Is it possible to consciously make mysef passionate at something i hate?

Danger

I find that chocolate sauce helps.

Jimmy Snyder

Sounds to me like you're already passionate about it.

micromass

What might that something be??

Danger

Oh...
I just assumed that it was a sexual question...

micromass

That explains the chocolate sauce...

Evo

Hate it with a passion?

f0olyco0ly

Eheh guys you're so funny, are you comedians?

Danger

Not me. I think that I caught Evo doing a stand-up routine in Baton Rouge a few years ago, but I'm not sure.

f0olyco0ly

Man, you should try, you would have a bright career, you're killing me with your humour, now don't exaggerate because they might arrest you.

Danger

"They" can't. I'm a Canuck, so Yank humour police have no jurisdiction over me.

Pythagorean

sit and close your eyes and imagine how you would do it, step by step and how you would overcome potential problems.

Danger

Jeez, Python... we had a good thing going here, and you had to go getting all "practical" on us...
What ever are we to do with you?

ThomasT

I suppose you're talking about something you need or want, in some sense, to learn, but find difficult or unappealing for some reason.

Is what you're talking about a necessary tool in some more encompassing endeavor that you are sort of passionate about learning and doing?

f0olyco0ly

Yes, exactly.I need to learn calculus and statistics which i don't like at all as a tool to "get" something else that i want.
So i figured that if there exists cognitive behavioural therapy to "cure" depression, maybe there's another "tool" that would make me interested/passional about math, i mean people get attracted/passional about different things, i want that kind of passion.

So i would be a thousand times more productive in my efforts.

f0olyco0ly

Well, we could keep our conversation going forever, sadly i don't know you, you don't know me, you were a little rude to me, targetting a new member like me to have fun with the people you already know on this forum.

I'm not a "serious guy" , but i made this thread with a purpose , i could accept you making fun of it if we were friends, but we're not.
But for now this is not the place for me to exchange humour, maybe it will be in the future, maybe it won't, for now i have other places where to have fun.

ThomasT

Assuming that you are somewhat passionate about becoming proficient wrt the more encompassing thing, then that should provide sufficient motivation to keep to a schedule of practicing the stuff that you now find somewhat tedious.

The good news is, the more you practice and learn the necessary tedious stuff, the less tedious it will seem. You might even grow to like it in and of itself, independent of your encompassing goal.

So, the behavioral therapy consists of just doing it in an organized/systematic way. But in the beginning you can ease the pain by keeping in mind your higher goal, and that there's only one way to attain it.

I suppose everybody, except savants and certain geniuses, goes through this to a certain extent. Contemplating spending countless hours on something that you regard as dry and uninteresting can be daunting. But I promise you that if you can bring yourself to passionately stick to a reasonable practice/study schedule, then you will be rewarded. If you feel like skipping a session, then remind yourself why it's necessary and why you're doing it. If you feel like stopping early, remind yourself. When you reach the time limit for a particular session, then do just a bit more, and so on. Eventually, the stuff that was hard at first becomes more or less permanently internalized, automatic, intuitive. You begin to see connections and possibilities that you never saw before. Then it becomes fun.