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You can’t make someone interested in learning. You can investigate what excites someone and foster that excitement. You can also show your excitement and hope it’s contagious. But, sometime it’s not.
What about your self, though? How do you know when you’re being “contagious to yourself?” Is that nonsensical?
I don't think it's nonsensical :)
There's a certain level of fake it till you make it, or even "gaslighting yourself" that you can do. Sometimes pretending that you're interested in something (and actively trying to justify it for yourself) is enough to make you grow interest. You can also look for the aspects of the topic that interest you to motivate you to learn the bits that aren't, with the logic that you can't get better at the interesting bit without also learning the less interesting bit.
Other times, especially if you have a choice to try something else, it's better to try something else and see if you can get into it more easily