Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Let’s get right into things. The first question comes from Michelle Jaques, who asks, “What is your favorite topic to learn about?”

Well, there isn’t one single topic. I think you can probably gather from the nature of this podcast that my interests are all over the place. What I’m interested in is going to change all the time.

I’ve gone through phases of what I’ve been interested in throughout my entire life.

When I was in Junior High School, I read voraciously about the space program. When I was younger, I memorized statistics about baseball. Before I started traveling, I had a large coral reef aquarium, where I learned about marine biology and the behavior of corals and anemones.

When the pandemic started, I started to teach myself Latin, a subject for which I still have a long way to go.

I think this is really the best way to become an autodidact or a self-learner. You have to follow whatever your interests are and be willing to move on to something new when your interests change.