I play the guitar. When I was younger, people just grabbing this instrument at a campfire and suddenly people would listen, they'd sing, there'd be a whole different mood... It seemed like magic. That, and the girls really seemed to like it, too. Eventually, it became less about extrinsic motivations like that. I nowadays mostly play as a weird kind of self-therapy. Sadly, I'm not quite making the kind of progress which I'd like, but I'm not too disciplined about it either.

There also was photography, which I loved doing. I got quite decent at using Photoshop, too. At some point, I noticed that, apart from hanging a few prints on my walls, there really wasn't anything I could think of doing with my pictures. But I noticed that on some sites, millions of pictures were uploaded daily. I also noticed that the tools available in Photoshop had reached a lever where the actual act of taking a great picture was only really necessary if those 'shop skills weren't up to scratch. Pretty much messed up my motivation. Somehow, I never saw and still don't see that as a problem with music.