I thirst for knowledge, sure. I read my textbooks and take notes a lot of the time, but that's really just a means to an end. If I read the textbooks and take good notes, then I'll pass the chapter test for that class, which brings me one step closer to my ultimate goal; money.

I appreciate learning about things that relate to me making money. I don't give a shit about Icarus or his dumbass flight, or whatever other retarded crap those uneducated ancient morons wrote about. I don't care about the back stories of characters in movies, games, or shows, because if I actually have to go and look those things up, then the storytelling capacities of those programs are probably not too great to begin with.

And while useless trivia is fun to spout; such as that the circumference of an average sized brick is 79 cm squared, it serves no purpose. I learned the circumference of an average sized brick just to be funny. Learning it has absolutely no probability of making me money, hence it becomes wasted thought capacity that I could have instead filled with useful knowledge pertaining to my area of specialty.