My Character Flaws

Edited for Blogger

I've been really thinking about some of the other problems I've been facing within myself...and potential solutions.

So, I decided to put down some of my problems and potential solutions. This is kind of like rubberducking my own problems. I'm just here to jot down some thoughts, but feel free to do this for yourself. You might find really interesting and creative solutions to some of your core problems.

Problem: My ability to read and comprehend what I've read...has gone far downhill. To a point where I have a lot of trouble even reading summaries. I can no longer read books without getting lost on the first page. Sometimes I can't even decipher stuff I wrote.
Potential Cause: Increased use of social mediums which encourage faster response time, decrease in reading complex and thick material, lack of focus and attention, and lack of study in Advanced English.
Potential Solution: Start reading more books, and limit my social media usage. Whenever I read a book, keep a big thick notepad nearby, and stop every once in a while. Draw down characters, dialogue, diagrams of information, and start highlighting/noting parts of the book for further analysis.

Problem: My ability to draw has never existed, and despite gaining a little skill with it during Production Design, I've yet to really start taking any real form or order in my abilities. Even worse is how crucial it is to the creative industry in general, regardless of position.
Potential Cause: Never practising drawing in the first place.
Potential Solution: Start attending drawing classes, if possible. Spend more time a day doing very simple sketches, and observing the form, perspective and colour/shading of various objects in the world. Try communicate to people for an hour per day using only pictures I draw.

Problem: I never challenge myself in video games; it's either easy or nothing, and I'm unwilling to play games I feel are too hard without trying.
Potential Cause: Been given the choice of difficulty in Ratchet: Deadlocked/Gladiator, and from that point forward never really being bothered to try something potentially rewarding for my effort.
Potential Solution: Don't be a pussy. Play more games, and try more games on a minimum of "Medium" difficulty. Stop playing RPGs with cheats. Start to learn to use special techniques, such as stunning.

Problem: I cannot watch, listen or read an argument/theory by somebody who is correct and successful, and will actively go out of my way to avoid said argument/theory and even try to present it as wrong without giving any solid evidence whatsoever.
Potential Cause: High amounts of egotism (present in all game developers), fear of other people using the same ideas I had to lead them to success first, and a general unwillingness to be open about certain issues.
Potential Solution: Don't be an asshole. If it's breaks I need to take every 10 minutes, do so. Just do my best to listen to entire arguments/theories I may dislike, taking notes and constructively thinking of any praise and criticism I have at the end of it. Stop having assumptions.

Problem: Allowing specific individuals on Tumblr or other websites to make me angry for a variety of reasons, complaining about them but never taking steps of action to stop the anger happening.
Potential Cause: I love to act and play a character. Angry is a single character. Being given a motivation is one thing, actually finding one personally is another. It feels good to occasionally let the hate out, even though it's at the expense of others.
Potential Solution: Simply block the users or ignore them, and find other places to play the hater. There's more constructive and useful ways to profit on anger, especially since it's a powerful motivation that can be used to deal with...

Problem: Laziness.
Potential Cause: In Year 6, I started to drop my grades and lose interest in schooling. I picked right back up to A student in Year 7, but Year 8/9 somehow caused me to start to slip, and since then I've never been able to properly motivate myself to do anything, except at the very last minute, or if it's something I have interest in which is not relevant to what's actually important.
Potential Solution: ???

There's probably more, but for now, these are enough problems to work on.