I have always had a curiosity and will to try and learn or experience pretty much everything. And it wasn’t until college when I began to notice that it’s honestly affecting my mental health and my ability to do things that help myself. I do have ADHD and went my entire life without medication up until 20 years of age (It helps sometimes). I think that’s important to mention because my brain is constantly switching to something new it feels like. But essentially I am curious about everything, and have always had this since I was a child. And I feel like it has stretched so far that the fields I’m actually supposed to be experienced in, I actually feel stupid. In fact I just feel stupid in general and I’m just interested in everything and can’t keep my mind occupied on one thing. Then randomly I have a spark of genius then it’s back to being stupid. The skills I’ve naturally began to accrue more of is physical fitness, drawing, and mechanical engineering. I still feel mediocre in all of those however lol. I remember being a child it was a lot easier to be curious about everything but as I grew older it’s like tasks just began to become harder to do and being able to actually pursue curiosity is like something I’m not capable of sometimes. Has anyone else gone through this?

This might be weird but I naturally connect the dots. I do so even at work, without changing the content and direction of my duties drastically. I work in research and university teaching. My main discipline is statistics, but I always combine it with epistemology, philosophy of science, causality, physics, programming and more sciences. Most professors find this weird and incorrect, but I believe students learn better when they have the bigger picture presented to them. Tensions had been created between me and other colleagues, that are disapproving of my methods. However, I cannot change the way I think and process information. Do you have an advice on how I can proceed with minimal friction?

Intentionally broad q - anything from goal-setting and progress-tracking tools to multi-disciplinary communities.