I have an addictive personality. When I get into something, I go all in. Health, sports cards, running, Magic, UFC, and right now Muay Thai, jiu-jitsu, and AI coding. Then a few months later I move on to the next thing.
For a long time I thought that meant I was scattered. That I could not commit. I do not think that anymore.
Here is what I think is actually going on. The intense phase ends, but what you picked up stays. The skills, the habits, the taste, the people. It all stacks up into a kind of life portfolio.
I also get into the other side of it. Not every obsession is worth keeping. Some are just procrastination. And quitting one, like I did with golf, is not the same as failing.
You are not flaky. You are building a life, one obsession at a time.
