>have a lot of free time and a boring job
>decide to start going through introduction to statistics textbook
>get bored- book is filled with stuff I half remember from college
>start going through Strang's linear algebra textbook
>get bored because it's so wordy

Any good approaches for someone who wants to learn but has no intrinsic interest or need for any of this? I'm thinking probably an intro to math textbook for physicists or engineers may be good but really I have no clue. I just want to have some more concepts in my toolkit.