I could say I'm in the same boat. Always wanted to learn such things, but never found the motivation to do so in an effective way. I picked up various books an

I could say I'm in the same boat. Always wanted to learn such things, but never found the motivation to do so in an effective way. I picked up various books and different learning strategies along the years but couldn't move forward cause I could not see any practical use for what I was trying to learn. Fast forward a few years and now I'm learning both physics and mathematics. What changed is I started working with 3D development for the furniture industry and a while later I got interested in woodworking. Started doing some woodworking projects and had to learn some basic geometry and trigonometry to calculate cuts. Now I'm interested in mechanical machines and electrical machines. To be able to build my own machines I have to learn some physics and other branches of mathematics and that's what I have been doing for the past months. I probably cannot work with formal physics or mathematics but I was able to learn a lot of the concepts behind the formulas and calculations and I believe that is much more important, at least, at first. The bottom line is you need to find something that motivates you and make you want to learn. That's how it worked for me.