I will understand our world better
I will figure out when Costco actually has its best deals. And, more importantly, which of those deals are real deals for someone who does not need 48 of everything.Â
In much the same way, I hope to figure out which scientific questions genuinely interest me and which, if pursued well, might leave something useful and lasting behind. Many things are new to me. Worse, the more I learn, the longer that list seems to become. Thanks to the expanding frontier of my ignorance, I will become selectively curious and smarter about where to spend my life.