Keep making room for the activities that let you enjoy being a learner.
CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY
Competence is comfortable and it narrows you over time. Adults stop doing anything they are not decent at, because being visibly bad feels like a status problem rather than a stage, and the days fill with things that require no learning. Something is lost there: the pleasure of getting less bad at something, available only to people willing to be beginners in public.
Take up one thing you have no talent for and no plan to earn from. Protect a small regular slot and measure progress in months rather than weeks. Notice how much lighter the week feels when one part of it has no standard to meet.
What do you still do badly and enjoy anyway?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.