I'm 10 years too late to start learning anything relevant to solving the problems of my era, so I'm just going to continue derping around I think, though that may include some reading about the problems of my era for unrelated reasons.
Most people doing serious work on anything important were replicating important mathematical theorems from scratch, reading philosophy before they were 10. Even if I had a brain that were good at things it's obvious that I haven't even been in the game, thus I'm not a contender.