I taught myself to crochet because I found it thrilling to create something with my own hands that brought myself and others joy. Unfortunately, I eventually established a box of ridiculous rules for myself around a hobby that I loved (ex: only allowing myself to crochet amigurumi because I crochet too tightly for clothing, projects should take no more than X amount of time, etc). These unreasonable expectations sucked the joy out of creating and caused me to burn out HARD.