polymathwannabe comments on Open thread, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 14 October 2015 01:03:46PM *  4 points [-]

Listen to yourself. You want to know what happened to you. You're still a curious person.

Even if you don't feel like you want to learn in general, you want to want to learn. You're on the path to switching from undirected to directed, from chaotic to purposeful curiosity. You already know how to pursue a question; now you need to find what questions matter to you.

Comment author: timujin 14 October 2015 06:37:14PM 2 points [-]

The source of my wanting is conscience rather than passion, though. It's a completely different thing, and learning is a tiring activity which importance I realize, rather than something that empowers me or something I look forward to. That's the problem.