The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Learning that sticks usually starts with something that struck you before it was useful. A proof that felt elegant, a sentence that rearranged your chest, a machine that was oddly satisfying to watch. Facts delivered without that charge slide straight off, which is why so much schooling evaporates within a year. The pull of beauty is what makes the effort of understanding feel worth spending.

If you are trying to learn something and cannot make yourself care, go looking for the version of it that somebody loves. Find the practitioner who is delighted by it, and start where their delight is.