What is SIDEQUESTMAXXING?
Sidequestmaxxing means deliberately accumulating hobbies, adventures, skills and peculiar personal missions outside the central career or life narrative. The side quest becomes serious enough to acquire milestones, lore and possibly its own spreadsheet.
Supposedly maxes
novelty / stories / hobby depth / serendipity / personal lore
Adherents believe
The side quest is the real plot.
A useless skill is still a skill.
A good month needs one improbable story.
The hobby may become infrastructure.
Main quests are often administrative.
You may already be SIDEQUESTMAXXING if…
- a routine errand acquires a mission name
- you know a place because it sells one unusually specific thing
- the main plan has been delayed by a more interesting premise
- your hobbies have lore, milestones and an origin story
Typical practices
- starting unusual hobbies
- taking classes with no career value
- setting arbitrary physical or creative challenges
- visiting places for one specific reason
- tracking side-quest milestones