building a personal curriculum to reclaim my curiosity

for years, learning has mostly existed within the framework of assignments, exams, deadlines, and grades. somewhere along the way, curiosity became secondary to performance. so i decided to build a personal curriculum around the things i'm genuinely curious about: philosophy, psychology, literature, mythology, and whatever unexpected connections emerge between them. the goal isn't optimization or to even to answer a specific question. i honestly have no idea where this will take me. i just want to follow my curiosity and see what happens when books are allowed to exist in conversation with one another rather than in isolation. for my first module, i'll be reading: 📚 the story of philosophy — will durant 📚 on becoming a person — carl rogers 📚 the unabridged journals of sylvia plath alongside fiction such as: 📖 the idiot 📖 jane eyre 📖 demian and more