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>things that would be useful to know Again, I'm not talking about usefulness - it's altogether another dimension. >I find it difficult to diversify my interes

>things that would be useful to know Again, I'm not talking about usefulness - it's altogether another dimension. >I find it difficult to diversify my interests Try a simple thing - pick anything outside of your interests and ask all sorts of questions about it to yourself, to see how much you really don't know. Some examples could be - where does it come from? who invented it? under what circumstances? how come it has this color/size/shape/feeling? how come it's this material? how come it takes this time? I promise - you will discover all sorts of strange, funny and fascinating stories which you could not imagine. This is a way to spark interest.

saagarjha 7y ago
> I promise - you will discover all sorts of strange, funny and fascinating stories which you could not imagine. This is a way to spark interest. Oh, I don’t have a problem finding interesting topics outside of what I already know: I spend too much time on Wikipedia reading random articles already. The issue I have is that I can’t bring myself to be interested in things I should cultivate an interest in, like machine learning or databases.
- mapcars 7y ago
  >things I should cultivate an interest in It's only you who defines these things. It seems that currently you find random Wiki articles more worthy than machine learning or databases. You think it is not so, but do not discard what you are actually doing as "bad habit", "lack of discipline" or something - see that this is not coming from nowhere, this is what you want on some level.