Being knowledgeable is a cool trick, but its not really useful, and it won't make you happy unless you gain it with a purpose. The best way to do this probably to pick one subject that you find interesting already, and let that interest carry over into other fields. For example, my interest in the life sciences led me to bioethics, then to philosophy, then to psychology, then to history, and so on. The point is to be curious. I began with trying to learn about embryos, then to stem cell research, then to stem cell ethics, then I wondered why ethics are the way they are, this led me to philosophy, then I wondered how philosophy is different from psychology, was Freud a philosopher or a psycologist? and so on....
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