This is the crux of my whole life. If I am not interested in something, my entire existence will basically refuse to soak up that knowledge or even try to empathize. It can sometimes suck. I have to walk away if people start engaging in conversations about sports.
It got easier to start digging into CLI after realizing that would be an easy way to get the home media server up and running. And managing local game servers.
It’s a little harder to focus on vlans and firewall rules, outside of the repercussions of not setting that up correctly.