Couldn’t have said it any better. Whenever someone is asking me if I have been introduced to a tool needed to do a job, I tell them “no, but only because I never had a reason to learn it. I’ll pick it up.”

I can pick something up very quickly when I have an actual reason to know it, and getting a good grade in a course is not a strong enough reason compared to “Learning this will help me save the world”. I’m not going to be passionate about it or inquisitive or asking myself the extra questions I normally ask myself when I’m learning something in order to apply it to a problem. And real problems are better than made up problems.