| There's nothing wrong with any of those things.
To me, motivation seems to be your problem. Why don't you go to the gym? Why haven't you started guitar lessons? Maybe it's because they're not things you want to do?
I don't bother with the gym much anymore. I used to be into weights quite a lot but that was more because I wanted to get a nice body to impress the ladies. After a while, I woke up and realised I wasn't getting a buzz from it (some people do get a buzz from it and it makes them feel good about themselves, I'm not criticising the gym, just saying it wasn't really for me). Now I instead do quite a few sports - football (soccer), tennis, badminton, cricket. The competitive edge to these gives me a buzz that I couldn't get in the gym, and you're still staying fit and healthy from them. Maybe find something like that? If you're doing something that gives you a buzz, something that yuo want to do and you enjoy, then you'll be motivated to go out and do it.
The same with the guitar - I've played piano since I was about 8 and I love it. It chills me out when I'm stressed, and I love the sense of achievement when I've mastered a new piece, or in the past when I had done a new grade, or learnt a new scale or whatever. My brother plays the drums professionally (he's ridiculously good, but I wouldn't tell him that to his face!!!), and he tried to give me lessons and I didn't find it interesting at all. I much preferred being able to play rhythms and stuff like that, so I soon lost interest. Again, if you do want to learn guitar, get some lessons, if not, find something else.
And the reading - nothing wrong whatsoever with reading whatever you want. You're quite lucky, in that I dare say you can adapt a lot of the philosophy stuff to a lot of situations. Your interest isn't reading about tractor tyre treads or something specific like that; it's something you probably can bring in to a lot of conversations, and something that a lot more people than you might think would be able to engage with. Who (especially women) doesn't like a deep meaningful conversation? One tip I'd give you though, is maybe that for every 3 or 4 philosophy books/articles you read, go and read 1 random book/article. That way, you might find a new interest. But even if you don't find a new interest, you will expand your knowledge just a little bit - it's good to know lots of little bits about as many things as possible. if you read an article on the rainforests in south america, don't find it interesting at all, never read anything else about rainforests ever again, that's fine. But then a girl might mention that she's going on a trip to the Amazon and you bring out one fact you remember from that article (the one and only article you've eer read about it) and you've got a good conversation topic!
Other than that though, a lot of your hobbies seem quite personal. Again there's nothing wrong with that. But you need something social. Either make sure you've just got a very active social life (you go out with your friends a lot, go to parties, go to the cinema etc. etc.) and are meeting new people through that, OR pick up a hobby that is more social. Join a sports club where you can either play with or against other people. Do a course in something, where you get to meet new people. Something like that.
The two bases to cover are personal interests and meeting new people. If you can find something that covers both of those bases then great, do that! If you can't, then maybe keep your interests as private individual ones (your reading, guitar, whatever), and just make sure you become a social butterfly; go out with your friends more often etc. etc.
Main thing to take from this - to be motivated to do stuff, make sure you're doing things that interest you. If you're motivated and doing things that are interesting you, that will show to women and your confidence will soar.
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