Improvement

Why is improvememnt so important to me

How to improve at anything

There is something i need to make extremely clear before i talk about this as 99/100 times this is why you dont get better at anything. DOING SOMETHING JUST TO DO IT AND PRACTICING SOMETHING WITH THE INTENT OF GETTING BETTER ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT this goes for any skill which includes gaming (yes that is a skill)

Lets say there are two people trying to learn the piano in the same month, one person learns by copying Synthesia videos, the other one takes the time to learn how to read sheet music, where to put their hands on the piano, basic warm ups, and scales. Which one would be better by the end of the month. the one copying Synthesia videos might have played more but over time the one who took the time to learn properly in the beginning will have an easier time improving, eventually outpacing the other one.

We can also use an FPS game example. Theres two overwatch players, one plays for 5000 hours but is gold, the other plays for 300 hours but is grandmaster. The one with 5000 hours feels like they deserve a higher rank because they play more. This is actually more common than you would think. But the sad truth is those 5000 hours were spent VERY poorly, its the exact same as the piano example, you will not get better at something just because you do it, you need to do something with intent. Aim training, study the game, ultimate tracking, team comps. everything. Basically what im trying to say from all this is people usually dont improve because they dont want to do the boring stuff, they want to skip straight to the fun stuff.

So now we figured out why we dont improve now we need to figure out how we DO improve, for me I tend to learn the best when i finish watching something and then immediately do whatever i just watched. This lets me not forget by actually spending time with the subject and understanding how and why. Doing one at a time is very important as being flooded with information is very overwhelming and will usually lead to no difference at all. This is how i learn, i dont know you so its up to you to understand yourself and how you learn things.

Improvement and motivation

This may sound a little rude but its because I need to hammer how important this is. If you rely solely on somehting like motivation to be able to start something. Then its probably easier to just give up. Motivation is extremely finite and unreliable. You absolutely need to just do something until it becomes a habit, at that point youre not even thinking about doing it you just are. Trust me the hardest part of anything is the beginning, always, and i mean like the very very beginning, your body hates pain (obviously and your brain treats the initial learning process for a skill as pain. So its obviously not going to be fun. you will suprise yourself with how quickly you can improve at something if you spend the first 20-50 hours seriously trying to learn as much as possible. nobody wants to be bad at something and a lot of the time nobody knows where to even start.

Drawing: do drawabox or take a beginner drawing course,

Blender: There are english subtitles, get started and make something

Japanese: This channel | And this site will have everything you would ever need to learn the language

Music: Most of your early struggles will be from theres a ton that people dont tell you. Learning a DAW isnt hard and there are so many tools in said DAWs now that the barrier for entry is MUCH lower now. if you know which VSTs are good, which genre specific music tutorials to avoid the only thing stopping you is practice, you need to make a TON of garbage and COMPLETE FULL SONGS NOT LOOPS. always be trying to learn something new no matter how small or big.