Don't try something new for 30 day only.

I usually deeply engage with Ted Talks conferences,  they are very informative and funny at the same time. However, when I listening to talks about personal growth, like explaining how you can write a novel in 30 days or hike mount Kilimanjaro in about the same time of period (or even better write a novel in 30 days after you have climbed the highest Africa mountain) my attention fades out and my deep thoughts control my questions superseding my attention.

Unfortunately, this was the very first podcast I listened to for this task. I stopped paying attention to his words, while at the same time wandering my internal thoughts about the argumentation process, even thinking about whether if am too cynical to using a pop culture icon to deliver fallacies or arguable statements at the least.

I decided to listen again this podcast, this time with the benefit of my new passion to play a new musical instrument and the result was very similar. The argument about statistics and how to become a novelist by "only" write 1.667 words a day (50.000 words a month) is again difficult to understand and difficult to compel.

In comparison, I have been studying my clarinet for several months and my progress is very limited at best, I haven't approached this new skill by training a number of hours per day or learning a new scale every week. I simply do it because I like it, there is no point to use a magic number or a cooking recipe to learn new skills if you don't really love it and finding out that you love it may take a long or a short time, nobody actually knows. 

In my case, learning new skills is usually hard, full of demotivation and blocking processes, and also the silverlings pleasure of finding out things no matter how much time has invested.

This timeframe applies also to re-learning my second language  (English)  after my stroke. Yes, there may be a bit of passion for learning, but clearly, the necessity to returns to my normal activities as in my pre-stroke activities (work, social life, etc.) in ultimate motivation.  At this moment, I don't know whether my recovery will finalize in 30 days or not ( I really don't think so)  and  I prefer not to think about that either.