It's a childhood trait!
@Aceeee82 I've been testing the new Practice Makes Perfect personality trait from the Happy at Home login event today and hit the Focused Jackpot. I got 17 hours Focused one morning just when my Sim woke up and it was 18 hours Focused the next day. She's been building her Research and Debate Skill and her logic skill for her legal career. She has the Personality Traits Over Achiever, Self Assured along with Practice Makes Perfect and Cheerful (from a Self Discovery moment). But I also found that the new "Take Soothing Shower" shower option that arrives with the new personality trait cancels out their focus and makes them Inspired instead.
I noticed that when we she went one day without practicing a mental skill though she lost her Focused mood altogether. I'm going to keep testing it tomorrow.
@simsplayer818 Good to know!
Still, The trigger is pretty arbitrary.
This moodlet is not caused by an interaction.
@Aceeee82 It's triggered by reading a skill book/practicing a skill or using a Research Archive Machine the night before and keeping that routine going. As soon as my Sim had an evening where she didn't practice any skills she lost the boost.
I found this explanation:
"If they can keep practicing, which is really very easy since you can just read four skill books for 5 minutes each day… They can keep their 180% skill boost. Permanent Double Boost Week!" But it's not just the skill boost, they get this massive boost to focus too.
I'm going to keep working with it today. It's definitely boosting her promotions at work in the legal career she's crushing it. Have to admit I was really unsure about this trait and didn't think I'd use it from early descriptions of it. Sims Community Guide also says:
"How this ‘practice makes perfect’ works: By default your Sims learn all skills at 50% speed. But by practicing a single category (Creative, Social, Physical and Mental) continuously, they can up the speed to 90%, 130%, 160% and even a whopping 180%
However, once they stop practicing, this buff starts to decay. Their practice will be checked daily, if no bugs occur. So they need to practice each category every day. And it will eventually drop back to 50%. So it’s kind of a challenging trait other than a reward one."
Once it kicks in it's really useful. It's the keeping momentum thats important, but they actually get a "Momentum" buff that tells you they're on a roll.
Ah, that makes sense now. I thought my Sim was supposed to only use skills from one category and that seemed pretty close to impossible.
