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I recently made my own list

    Linguistics (psychological, pragmatics)
    Anthropology (social, cultural)
    History (Colonial, Victorian, social)
    Psychology (social)
    Etymology
    Humanism (Renaissance)
    Philosophy (Epistemology)
    Libertarianism
    Barter Economies

    Generalism
    Miscegenation
    Languages (Romance)
    Entrepreneurship
    Technology Startups
    Film (foreign, documentary)
    Music (folk, world, classical)
    Literature (fiction, creative nonfiction)

    Coffee Houses
    Salons
    WWOOF
    Wordplay
    Photography
    Curation
I used to study them all quite frequently but have stopped in the last few years without knowing why. Now I realize it's because I'm trying to justify knowledge vs. usefulness. Trying to get back to some of them now, though.

It's interesting that I have yet to find others who also like to learn about varied topics, outside of those who enjoy learning about technical topics. I guess that's why I'm a generalist (and why generalists are usually INTPs).




I should add cultures and languages, too.

CULTURES

    Brazil (10 years)
    Spain (5 years)
    Colombia (5 years)
    Argentina (3 years)
    Portugal (1 year)

    Cuba (months)
    Italy (months)
    Germany (months)
    Australia (months)
LANGUAGES

    Brazilian Portuguese (fluent, self-taught)
    Spanish (semi-fluent, self-taught)
    Italian (intermediate, self-taught)
    French (basic, self-taught)

    German (attempted)
    Swedish (attempted)
    Russian (attempted)
    Catalan (attempted)




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