David Foster Wallace said he saw good nonfiction as a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.”
We all do this in our own mediums for our own fascinations.
Everyone is an expert in something.
What things jog your imagination when you’re going on a walk? Where does your brain leap to when you hear about a problem in the world? What kind of literature do you read that you’ve never heard of anyone else enjoying? Was there a particular or meta or mundane part of school that you were energized by? How would you spend your time on a day with no technology and no work to do?
Dig into the answers to these questions and find an obsession.
You may just be sitting atop a mountain of golden ideas that the world would be better to see out there…