The only research that ever paid dividends for me has come in fields that nearly all relatives and teachers told me would be utterly useless, un-serious, a waste of time: muscle bodies, wrestling, deep dives into beefy oddballs, weird fitness
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That really should be encouraged more.
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My PhD advisor encouraged it. He said if I was so serious about such strange stuff, I'd obviously derive value from it (hence his own research into university glee clubs and the dietary habits of John Dos Passos)
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I felt like I could create my own unified scene, something that connected my various secret hobbies
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