Honestly thinking back, I can only really learn nowadays by doing, and I have to be genuinely interested in it. Furthermore, I've found only by jumping in can I

Honestly thinking back, I can only really learn nowadays by doing, and I have to be genuinely interested in it. Furthermore, I've found only by jumping in can I retain the attention needed to learn. As an example. I recently tried to learn a programming language I had some interest in. Initially, by attempting to follow a book chronologically which I grew bored of by the 4th chapter. Later, I had something I wanted to make, and decided to jump in using the book / docs as a reference when doing something I wasn't familiar with and amazingly, I was able to keep focus and actually learn. Unfortunately recently, many of my learning projects are coming to a halt because I find I need to purchase X and wait for it to ship, usually temporarily losing interest in the meantime.