If you’re learning on your own, be it for work or for pleasure, it can be difficult to stay motivated. How often have you taken up a new hobby enthusiastically, only to lose interest after a few months? Sometimes this is perfectly fine: it you find your chosen activity is not for you there’s no harm in admitting this to yourself and moving on to something new. But what if you need to learn to get ahead in your career, or if you really want to learn a language, or if you just don’t want to give up?