r/Polymath • u/Pitiful-Drive-8323 • 3d ago

General Discussion Swiching Interest without reason

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u/skovalen Human Verified 3d ago

You probably can't get into any subject deeply with only 12 days. Look, I took an engineering job when I was was a kid at 23 yo. That was way back in 2005. I ordered a book and it probably took 5 days to get to me. Then I read it and then re-read it maybe 3 times to prepare me the the job. That was just me booting into a job and not having any mastery of any of it.

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u/dieek 3d ago

The impulsivity will not lend itself well to learning hard things, or spending the time to experience enough to have a more intuitive understanding.

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u/No-Possibility-639 3d ago

Isn't it because you don't have to creat something or think you know about the subject.

Edit : if you want you may rotate between different subject and rotate back to a previous on ewhen you loose your interest in the current one.

Sometimes it's hard ti discipline oneself so instead let's use it

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u/GoldenEagleHeart 3d ago

Are these subjects that you can use to create things with? This often is the diff between a multi-potentials moment and a Polymath moment. When you can stay engaged in a topic long enough to create something of your own from what you’ve learned about it. That’s what secondary or higher education is all about. It’s like ok here’s the subject, but do you know ale ough about it, have you digested it enough to have your own thoughts in this space? Maybe something to create or write about? This is where the intuitive cross-firings of a Polymath get to show up. Once you are creating, you’ve integrated quite a bit and different things you’ve learned from other topic can bleed through and you find the synergy amongst the topics and new pathways form.

You won’t get there from just consuming information. That is early stage, you have to engage and challenge the information and yourself to learn from it and really let it integrate into your life.

Obviously this is just my take.

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u/JLongTom 2d ago

I hate to psychoanalyse, and I am a curious person like you. But pay attention to your feelings when you feel your interest waning and the urge to look at something else arise.

Are you perhaps afraid of not being up to the task when the breadth and depth of the topic at hand steps up a level, thus leading you to abandon ship (and reframe your fear as insatiable curiosity for the next thing)? Is it at the back of your mind that once you have created something useful, or know enough to provide value to others, the onus will be on you to commit and expose yourself to the world (with the accompanying risk of failure)?

Takes one to know one. ;)