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It sounds like finding explanations for your interests is useful to you, but I don’t think that generalizes.

Many people are completely comfortable pursuing interests without needing or wanting a logical framework to explain/justify.

I enjoy cooking, in the sense that I study and try to understand and improve at a technical level. I probably could come up with a rationale for why, but I suspect it would be post hoc reasoning, so why bother?