Hey, Veeky Forums. How much do you self-educate outside of your field? What are your "hobby subjects"?

I think the problem is people think "Oh I'm not going to be a generalist" and then immediately take it to the extreme and only study some single thing and being just as bad. Balance is good.

Nutrition (although I am in food science)
Philosophy (always enjoyed it shame there are no philosophy jobs lol)

A lot of major contributions (if not all) in a specific field happen through creative insights. And creativity is just linking unrelated information to get somewhere nobody else has got to. So yeah, it is important not to be a monolithic autist.

Ah the old

>Autists are mentally rigid and pedantic

meme. I swear, you people use Veeky Forums to define reality for you and then complain when the reality doesn't match the bullshit Veeky Forums definition.

It isn't a meme, it is literally part of the diagnosis of autism.

Aka how to quality shitpost on sci

How can someone who has forgotten absolutely everything about math get good in geometry and algebra?

I'm a behavioral neuro grad student but I took a lot of pure math as an undergrad, so I sometimes do that in my free time since I would have been a mediocre mathematician anyways. I enjoy reading literature in the "softer" parts of psychology, especially clinical literature. It's excellent stuff for writing grant proposals. People love translatability when using animal models like I do.

I also like to read up on physical chem and theoretical cs every now and then since most of my friends were ChemE or CS.

I don't read humanities journals, but I'm very well read and enjoy learning languages. I'm bilingual and know moderate amounts of 3 others.

This nigga is onto something

I educate myself a fuckton outside of school on my subject.

My subject both at school and as a hobby is inorganic chemistry