Apr 10, 2025

Desire

We often try to force ourselves to learn — scheduling time, setting goals, building systems.
But real learning doesn’t come from pressure. It comes from desire.

Take procrastination, for example.
Most of us beat ourselves up for putting things off.
But more often than not, procrastination is just a signal:

You don’t want to do that thing.
You want to do something else instead.
So… go do that something else.

We miss this cue. We think procrastination is laziness.
But maybe it’s just a nudge pointing us toward something we’re actually curious about.

Think about school.
You probably don’t remember much from the classes you were forced to sit through.
Mandarin at 10 a.m. with a teacher you didn’t like? Of course it didn’t stick — because you didn’t want to be there.

But the things you chose to explore?

• The late-night deep dives
• The Bitcoin rabbit holes
• The random YouTube binge that turned into hours of discovery

Those moments didn’t need reminders or to-do lists.
You followed them because you were genuinely curious.
You wanted to know more.

And that’s when the learning became real.

When you act from desire, you lose track of time.
You retain more. You go deeper. You grow faster.
It’s not effortless, but it is sustainable — because it’s aligned with who you are.

You’re not dragging yourself forward anymore.
You’re being pulled by something you want to understand, create, or explore.

So maybe the better question isn’t:

What should I be learning?

But instead:

What do I actually want to learn right now?

Follow that thread.
Because learning driven by desire is the kind that sticks — and the kind that changes you.