I’ve had a game in development stalled for a month because I’m also writing a story, but the story is also half stalled because I’m replaying a game, and I’m already getting frustrated.

It’s something that is starting to bothering me, it seems like I can’t do something if I’m not completely immersed in it: If I want to watch movies or a series, I must do a marathon; if I want to play a game, I must pass it in less than a week; if I want to make a game, I must get into a Crunch because “reasons”; if I want to write, I must work on making it the best story I’ve ever written so far.

Is this normal? should I not worry so much? or how can I better manage the things I want and need to do?

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To me, it sounds somewhat like hyper focusing. Are you familiar with ADHD or ASD?

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I’m so good at having multiple projects I’ve yet to finish one.

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It’s normal. I like to think human brains are optimized like a single-core CPU, if you want to make a computer analogy. If you multitask, you’re likely to be unsatisfied on the parallel tasks you’re doing.

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Can’t say if its “normal” or not but I’m exactly the same. It sucks sometimes cause I want to work on multiple things. Developing a project, learning a instrument, learning a new language, training cardio. But I seem to only have time for one at a time. Because I’ll put soo much time into that one. Whichever one is most interesting at the time.

At the same time though I kind of think its a good thing cause when I’m interested in something I can have a lot of fun and make a lot of progress fast.

But yeah if I find a new TV show or game I have to completely finish it before I can get back to being productive.

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Following because that me

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