I'm not sure what this actually accomplishes, I can see how this can be counterproductive somehow. Somehow I think your giving yourself a title when you did not

I'm not sure what this actually accomplishes, I can see how this can be counterproductive somehow. Somehow I think your giving yourself a title when you did not accomplish something is just acknowledging your own impatience and unrealistic goals. Either you actually want to become an athlete, or become an artist, or become a pianist, and you need to accept the mediocrity of beginners and the effort and commitment it takes to achieve something ; which you might fail at. Or you just want to exercise, draw, or play the piano, but don't want your life to revolve around that, not put too much energy into it, and accept to remain at an enthusiast level, and never become an athlete, artist or pianist, and there's nothing wrong with that. And maybe at some point you'll realize you really enjoy one of these and become athlete artist or pianist. Otherwise you can embrace your mediocrity and enjoy doing things for the sake of doing things rather than trying to become something. It feels like calling yourself early on sets the unrealistic expectation that you need to live up to that title, and become dissatisfied because athletes run everyday, artist draw everyday, pianist play everyday, and since you're one you ought to, but you don't want to so you don't like it, and what you should do for fun becomes a chore. Now maybe that's a framing because you really want to become something, and that's what carries you through pain, but I don't know how well that's gonna work when overdoing something will inevitably drive you away from it