Source: https://xkcd.com/2501/
Alt text: "How could anyone consider themselves a well-rounded adult without a basic understanding of silicate geochemistry? Silicates are everywhere! It's hard to throw a rock without throwing one!"
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Best way to cure yourself of this is to become a teacher in your field, especially if you do any teaching of anybody who isn't already specializing in it (K-12 or for-non-majors college classes). I'm a music teacher and yesterday I had a kid struggle for a full half hour to play a kick drum on a consistent quarter beat. Literally all you have to do is lift your foot up and put it back down again, but at one point he actually asked me "when I pick my foot up, it keeps hitting the bit of the kick pedal above it and that's throwing me off" and I had to explain to him that he could move his foot half an inch backward and that would stop happening, because apparently he was unable to intuit that. Didn't seem to help him all that much, though.
He was also wearing running shoes with the laces taken out, which leads me to believe that this is not the only basic thing this ten-year-old child struggles with.
Sorry, I know this isn't geology related, but I needed to rant about it.
Seems a lot like when i pretended to be overly bad at something so i didnt have to do it
You know, you might just be on to something. He sure didn't seem like he was particularly into it.