Something that struck this home for me was noticing the Freakonomics podcast, “teach me something I don’t know“. That taught me that scratching the itch to lear

Something that struck this home for me was noticing the Freakonomics podcast, “teach me something I don’t know“. That taught me that scratching the itch to learn and novelty can just be pure entertainment, and not some grand purpose or value that’s intrinsically any better than other forms of entertainment. That realization made me more choosy about when or how I get sucked into learning.