Apology accepted!
I am talking about an academic subject, or perhaps a skill. Not necessarily truth.
In my elem and high school days I was killer in math but quite indifferent to history. This “caused” two things:
1: I never really had to work to learn the next stage of math. Run me through a few examples, work through a dozen problems, and I latch on and get it.
2: I never really had to work to “learn” history at a level sufficient to get “B”s in elem >HS history. I really did not care about history, at the time I thought it was pretty useless to learn.
As a result, I never really “learned how to learn”. Of course, this was the 60’s and 70’s and we did not have the touchy-feely distinctions we have now, in essentially everything.
I am just saying, there must be approaches to learning things that you are WILLING to learn but have no special knack for. I never got that/those. When I got to Berkeley taking advanced math courses, every kid in that class was as smart as the smartest kid in class (which I almost was in HS) I got 19’s and 24’s on tests.
Why is the big question.... when one wants to know the why, they learn... I too never learned the skill of “learning” but wanted answers to why things happened... math was a puzzle to figure out and history told an interesting story, that now is PC precluded... truth suffers or perhaps I am blind to the ambitions of people... Kennedy wasn’t Camelot... a man with ambitions and needs... so too our rebel leaders... when we negate human nature for identity political nature we lose our search for truth.