Oversubject

One important question is what is worth spending your time and energy on to learn or practice. The field of subjects is large and there is only so much time to spend. One’s interest, proximity to said subjects, and compulsion to take up all could play a factor in pursuit of a given interest. Outside of said examples, a priori dreaming can only take you so far. And what if your interest changes? Even though you determined that bird watching is what you should be doing, there is a possibility of losing interest. Perhaps, your hope of identifying the birds of North America has been misplaced.

This is a question that can only be answered by each individual and no categorical imperative can be given because other worthy subjects would be passed over. So to answer for myself, but in a way to answer yours too, is to say that the most important thing to focus on is whatever is present. Whatever that is close at hand should be given due consideration rather than things out of reach. What is present is the interest that determines the conditions on how something should be pursued.  Going back, the example of bird watching was dismissed because the interest was lost. So it determined the subject.

But the further question is what determines the interest. Your interest can be examined and asked if it is in the right place. Maybe there is something better? This further exam requires the use of asking what is proximate to fully see if the interest is valid or worthy.  Falling back on what you know, your past experience, and what materials and resources at hand will all help in solidifying your interest. Another further question, however, is if there is an oversubject that determines the shape of how one bethinks of interest. This consideration is different and could stop the above ambivalent approach.

This oversubject, or rather theory of how interest should be practiced, is subject to the same laws that regular interest is subject to. Your ambivalence must be acknowledged although it is easy to use the ideal format of an immutable interest. The only absolute is change becomes a code for those who prefer the idea of interest without looking beyond that. So saying that nothing is fixed is not to be content with the pronouncement because it can only describe. This exercise is to show the need for more than what prethinking can get you which is the realization to remove any false ideas of interest.