>>1384I enjoy reading manga and lurking on a few imageboards, but there's not much "being good at that" (or maybe there is?). You could say I'm trying to get better at reading manga since I started learning Japanese. I'm pretty damn horrible as a complete beginner, but I work on it bit by bit every single day and having fun with that (most of the time..). Consistency and persevering is key to going from bad to good, but I don't have becoming good or fluent as a goal. I have a simple goal of being able to read manga/vns, watch anime, and play old japanese games without many translations. I don't know how far I need to get to reach that point and I don't know how good I would be just from being able to do that, but I want to do it because it seems fun.
I also like to code sometimes. I'm still pretty damn bad at that even after a decade because I don't seek to improve my pretty basic knowledge at all, but it's fun making things even if they're not groundbreaking or useful to anyone other than me. I also get frustrated a lot doing that so it's not always fun, but I do get a lot of enjoyment from using my own creations.
Just remember that in order to get good at something, you need to be bad at it, a lot. You need to continue being bad at it as much as possible while trying to improve with babysteps. I have another thing I want to do as a hobby which is drawing. Will definitely pick it up soon-ish. I'm HORRIBLE at drawing by the way. I'm irredeemably bad, but I think it would be fun to be able to draw cute little anime reactions to attach with my posts in various places so I'd like to pick it up as a hobby regardless. It will have to wait a bit though, but I'm definitely definitely DEFINITELY picking it up eventually because I want to. I don't even want to get good. I just want to do it, so I'll have to make do with being very bad at it in the beginning. There's no way around it. 仕方がない。I'll probably never get good, but that's perfectly fine.
I'm sure there's some motivational video I could send you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Vg4uyYwEktl;dr you have to be bad to get good, but you don't even have to get good. set goals of things you want to do, not skills you want to show off.