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If you say that you find it nigh-impossible because of how it interacts with your neurology, I believe you. (Not arguing--it's just a possibility you didn't include.)

Oh, that is a bummer. I don't homebrew--I didn't have the physical space for it when I was most into beer--but it's a hobby I respect the heck out of.

I just recently read a book where the author spent a week riding along with a long-haul trucker in the US, and I get the feeling the experience changed his outlook on a lot of things, and might have made him a better driver in some ways. Honestly, just driving (even co-driving) a rented truck...

Oh, gawds, I'm flashing on craft beer fifteen years ago ...

Neither playing guitar nor GMing is a recreational impossibility, I concur.

Look, I ended up on bass for reasons, OK? (Seriously, good post.)

I think someone really new to GMing--especially someone without much experience as a player, or without much variance in that experience--might latch onto the first mostly reasonable advice they find, and then other advice might need to make sense to them before they apply it. I don't think...

I think someone really new to GMing--especially someone without much experience as a player, or without much variance in that experience--might latch onto the first mostly reasonable advice they find, and then other advice might need to make sense to them before they apply it. I don't think...

I think there is perhaps a difference between unwilling to cook any dish not from one's native cuisine and, I dunno, preferring to cook dishes from a cuisine you're familiar with. I'm a pretty experienced hobby cook, and there are things I'm not at all willing to deal with preparing, for reasons...

In my own case, the game is working for me and for the players at my table, and I don't persistently have more energy than it takes to run the two 5e/ToV campaigns I'm running. It's also not exactly "forever," but that's a different thing.

On the one hand, I'd expect people who enjoyed one trick-taking game to enjoy several. On the other hand, bridge specifically has some complexity especially around the bidding and its use as communication--and that might be a thing people who were really into bridge might not be eager to miss...

There's "hard" that's enjoyable and worth the effort, and there's "hard" that isn't. I'm no good at all at chess, and I don't enjoy playing it. I enjoyed music until my ears went to crap, and I was a pretty good musician at times, and I picked stuff up pretty quickly. There are prodigies who are...

I would be especially quick to give someone I'd GMed for a shot.

The point of the rant seemed to be aimed at people who make it sound harder than it is, usually people with products to sell that they purport will make it easier for you. The GM-Advice-Industrial Complex isn't all that, or even all caused by that--there are other causes I can point at that...

Well, most conventional TRPGs call for multiple players and one GM. That probably has at least as much to do with there being so many more players than GMs. And I've seen far more GMs run entire campaigns than I have drop them prematurely; the only non-anxiety-related one in my experience was a...

I can think of at least three people in my circles who share at least one of your three reasons for finding GMing difficult, and I can think of at least one other who routinely has routinely needed breaks from it to reassemble in his head how he wanted to do it (though the last friend has mostly...

I know a couple of the people I GM for have run into anxiety-related walls connected to their GMing, that's a real thing, and it's at least vaguely connected to your "lack of belief in onseself" idea. While I think that is/was pretty much on them, not the rest of us at the table, I have no doubt...

"Takes time and practice to get better at" is not the same thing as "massively difficult." No, you're not going to look/sound/feel like a professional voice-actor running on a stream, first time, but that's also not the same thing as "good." My own take is that it's neither as difficult as some...

It seems worth pointing out that a lot of things that kinda fall on GMs to do are more social/hosting things, and GMs end up doing them for the same reason/s bands usually end up practicing at the drummer's house--they're the ones with the most stuff to schlep. Yes, managing the schedules of...

Sure, and that's their problem. Unless, of course, you make it yours.