okay this may not be totally helpful, but I've found that the more you study A Specific Thing, the more prompts you have for becoming a generalist which sounds backwards but lemme explain
If you want to study a Renaissance occultist, you understand more about them as you study both the Renaissance and the occult, separately. You learn even more about them if you study the city they grew up in. You learn more about that city if you study its own history, which then adds even more context to that One Specific Thing you started learning about in the first place. You get more answers, which gets you more questions. Zoomed in-> zoomed out works better than zoomed out->zoomed in, in my experience
I tried studying early American-European contact, just as an amateur self-guided thing, and that spiraled out into "oh hey here's one more thing I can learn about to understand this more." Do I understand everything? Nope! But I have more paths into understanding things now, and that's somewhere to start.
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which sounds backwards but lemme explain
If you want to study a Renaissance occultist, you understand more about them as you study both the Renaissance and the occult, separately. You learn even more about them if you study the city they grew up in. You learn more about that city if you study its own history, which then adds even more context to that One Specific Thing you started learning about in the first place. You get more answers, which gets you more questions. Zoomed in-> zoomed out works better than zoomed out->zoomed in, in my experience
I tried studying early American-European contact, just as an amateur self-guided thing, and that spiraled out into "oh hey here's one more thing I can learn about to understand this more." Do I understand everything? Nope! But I have more paths into understanding things now, and that's somewhere to start.