What's the best STEM field to study if you've got no interest in any of them?
I'm pretty good at spotting analogous patterns and trends in things I'm knowledgeable about, and adding to knowledge that I already have. I tried to go back to school to study biology and chemistry because I like psychology and animals and thought studying animal behaviour would be cool. I underestimated the sheer amounts of info I had to memorise without any chance or opportunity to connect it into anything I already knew about.
I got good grades of the 1st class of chemistry, the simplest model of an atom was easy to understand and the chemical reactions seemed understandable and sufficiently close to common sense. But I quickly burned out and became completely incapable.
Learning something unpalatable is like eating plain flour. One spoonful is tolerable. Even large amounts are good when mixed into more palatable, less dry things. But when you try to build on the unpleasant knowledge by forcing yourself to memorise more and more stuff that's dry and not directly good for anything else, you're just adding flour to flour, and eating a whole bowl of nothing but flour with nothing else to help it go down, it's just not going to go down.
There's a saying in finnish, "what you learn with no joy, you forget with no sorrow". It's hard to build more and more on a foundation that already crumbled before it was done.
What's the easiest STEM field to learn if you don't like them? How you make yourself learn it?
I'm pretty good at spotting analogous patterns and trends in things I'm knowledgeable about, and adding to knowledge that I already have. I tried to go back to school to study biology and chemistry because I like psychology and animals and thought studying animal behaviour would be cool. I underestimated the sheer amounts of info I had to memorise without any chance or opportunity to connect it into anything I already knew about.
I got good grades of the 1st class of chemistry, the simplest model of an atom was easy to understand and the chemical reactions seemed understandable and sufficiently close to common sense. But I quickly burned out and became completely incapable.
Learning something unpalatable is like eating plain flour. One spoonful is tolerable. Even large amounts are good when mixed into more palatable, less dry things. But when you try to build on the unpleasant knowledge by forcing yourself to memorise more and more stuff that's dry and not directly good for anything else, you're just adding flour to flour, and eating a whole bowl of nothing but flour with nothing else to help it go down, it's just not going to go down.
There's a saying in finnish, "what you learn with no joy, you forget with no sorrow". It's hard to build more and more on a foundation that already crumbled before it was done.
What's the easiest STEM field to learn if you don't like them? How you make yourself learn it?
