After my recent foray into economics, this has become my internal lament:
It appears that I must try to understand everything in order to understand anything.
It feels like I’m constantly moving backwards when I try to understand anything. I founded this blog thinking that I would focus my thoughts on cognitive science, but I’ve found that my kernel of curiosity, allowed to express itself over a period of years, has smeared itself into an omnidirectional wave.
I have a similar problem. Every time I begin to research a new area, my natural curiosity takes over and I end up reading all I can about the subject, then I branch into the related areas, then the areas related to those….
Each time, I intend to only learn about a given subject, but the connections to other areas are irresistable.
Thanks for articulating a thought I've been having for a long time.