I wish I knew. Personally, I've never had success in generating artificial end-goals for myself as a way to motivate learning, physical exercise, etc. The only

I wish I knew. Personally, I've never had success in generating artificial end-goals for myself as a way to motivate learning, physical exercise, etc. The only motivators that have really worked for me are goals that I truly believed matter. E.g., losing weight to live longer, learning about compiler internals to keep making money for my family, learning certain woodworking skills because I really want parts of my house to not look terrible, etc. Fortunately, I often find that I enjoy those intermediate steps/learning that I need to accomplish those real goals. E.g., I never would have expected to find compiler internals or woodworking to fascinating, but they became so when I needed to learn them. But I've never had luck, for example, saying "I really want to learn how to write GUIs with Rust. What end goal could I create to motivate that?" I just never end up making time for those pursuits.