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I have purchased a photography course exactly one year ago. I have only gone through the tools used and haven’t actually gone through the actual course. You see, getting the gear was easier and more immediate than going through the course itself.
I have since purchased (and sold) a Moments lens, figuring that fiddling with a lens mid-way of taking a photo does not fit with my lazy psyche. I was more worried about dropping the lens than anything else. Even after my mini adventure into using lens on a phone, I still haven’t done the course. The worst part? This actually features highly on my todo list, day in, day out. I actually know what to do, but doing it took an even lower priority compared to the apple session that I signed up and did last month.
Immediacy matters. There’s somehow a half-life to the things that I learn, i.e. there’s an immediate euphoria that “I can learn this?!!!”. After a day, that feeling halved immediately, and then half again the next day. Mathematically, the enthusiasm have dropped to less than 1% by the end of the week. Now it’s just sitting there, staring at me, goading me and my mind seems to have been trained to just ignore it day in day out.
One of my goals for setting up this website is to get myself accountable, so this week, the week of 18 November 2019, I will start and hopefully complete the course by the end of the week. I shall report back on 25 November 2019.
