It is usually inevitable to stumble upon a certain topic that you have to learn, but that you simply do not find any compelling reason to learn it. You are procrastinating, browsing Facebook and doing everything else instead of learning it. Avoiding it will not help. Something has to be done related to it. This article might inspire you to think and tackle this. A key to open new ways of thinking and solving problems is asking proper questions. Below I have listed a few that can potentially help you in this regard.
If this topic was interesting, how it would look like?
It is quite possible that at some point in time there is at least a dozen of topics that have sparked in you a seed of curiosity to learn something. What was that something that made you so willing to learn it? Try to identify that ingredient and then try to emulate such ingredient for this new topic that you are finding it hard to learn about.
Why others are interested about it?
If you are learning this from a textbook, or from a scientific paper, or article, it is certain that at the very least somebody in the history of this particular field was interested in this topic. He or she might have find it fascinating to investigate, research, produce and write about it. Otherwise, it is highly likely that it would not be included or even mentioned there. Try to find the reason behind this interest of others about this. Maybe that reason might inspire you as well to learn it.
What is its importance?
If you are still struggling to motivate yourself to learn about it, despite the fact that you have tried to find the answer to the above questions, then try to ask yourself about the meaning or the impact that this topic might have or have had up to this moment. It is likely that if it was not useful or important for at least something, then it might have not been written at all.
These were only a few questions among others that might give you a new approach of inspiring yourself to learn something that seems boring. They are only a few among dozens of other ones that you might find helpful. When you find that something is interesting, you might find it difficult stopping from learning it. A compelling reason can attract a huge amount of effort from your side learning it. When enthusiasm is associated with understanding a certain topic, then that is a remarkable learning experience that can give you butterflies of excitement.
