For me it was physics. Was interested in it as a teen, studied it for a degree, and though I did well in it – I just could not look at it as this fun thing. It would even make me angry to read physics posts on reddit where people shared their enthusiasm for certain concepts.

Then I kept reading reddit, had my mind repeatedly blown by things that I thought I understood but clearly didn’t because I was just doing rote memorization to pass exams, and I began to enjoy it again. Now I love it, but it really is amazing what being forced to learn something for little-to-no encouragement other than an exam mark can do to sap your enthusiasm for something