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"Why are people interested in X to Y degree?" is one of the more important questions that I've made *0* progress in answering in the last ~4 years.
@paulg excellently describes why it's important to think about http://paulgraham.com/genius.html
My weakly held hypotheses:
1. Passion for its own sake is not just non-uniformly distributed but extremely rare. Example: At a top tier university, in a niche degree, in a social club of people in that degree, you'd expect to find those people with some regularity. This does not seem to be true
2. People who do have passion create things Why: Trying to find likewise people is extremely difficult. It's much more efficient to make something, put it out, and have an audience reach out to you rather than randomly sampling the population (see point 1)
3. What those people are interested in is completely random Reasoning: People like to tell "just-so" stories about what got them interested in X, but this is just selection bias. You have a near infinite exposure set of things to choose from
4. It is probably impossible to increase one's interest in something artificially Reasoning: The reward to be intrinsically motivated must be *extremely* strong to ignore other human interests. Until we're manipulating the neurons themselves, external nudges are futile
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