When you have no time for something you want to be good at

If you expect to get good at something while you don’t spend even an hour a day on it, you will only get a lot of disappointment.

Since I am almost just dangling my feet in learning Japanese and practicing piano for a few minutes every day, my progress is at a snail’s pace yet there’s some progress (very tiny and easy to miss).

If you want to get good at something, you should spend a lot of time on it, but if you don’t really have time for it, you can choose to do just a little and still enjoy doing it.

Eventually, you get what you put in, and the more you put in, the faster you get.

2026-05-14 | Essay