That's how you double the rate of physics/chemistry students.

Seriously.

I was so on the fence as a high school senior and (as a good Indiana boy) got an offer from Rose-Hulman to major in physics. Instead, I went to a SLAC and studied philosophy, eventually convinced a neuropsychology lab in a clinical psych PhD program to take a chance on me, and now study a bunch of neurological conditions.

This video made that old pull come back, but of course life has constrained me to stick with what I've got going. At least after almost 20 years I get to geek out with the MRI physicist on a regular basis.

My new goal is to be as giddy explaining brain function as Feynman is explaining just about anything.

For odd reasons I'm deeply interested by neuropsychology, is there a main journal to read ? mostly representation of the "somatic" self (and others), perception of emotions.

It's very cool field, in my opinion. Some good journals for your topic would be Journal of Affective Neuroscience, and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

For books, I really enjoyed LeDoux's The Emotional Brain and Damasio's Looking for Spinoza.

But the general neuropsych journals like Neuropsychology, Neuropsychology Review, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, and Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology touch on those topics as well, but not as consistently.

Until they realize that most of the work is much more boring.

Most work is structurally boring, from obligation, low risk and repetition. At least you're bored AND educated :)

That could be said of me as a dev. I don't see (formal) education itself as an asset. It's a means to an end. Most of the education is not used and forgotten. The type of people who are able to learn, might be better off learning what they want without an education.

It's a mean to an end but also a way to alter/improve your perception of things and your existence outside the daily duties.

It's possible that in many areas of life ignorance truly is bliss. Being educated might mean you see through the BS but there's nothing you can do to change it.

Pyrotechnicians.