Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

Young’s technique consists of five steps. The first is to ‘Gather raw material’.

The flame of curiosity doesn’t burn in a vacuum.

initial (diversive) curiosity

‘conscientiousness’

If diversive curiosity is the flash and splash of novel stimuli, epistemic curiosity is a path you want to keep travelling down, even when the road is bumpy.

Curiosity requires an edge of uncertainty to thrive; too much uncertainty and it freezes.

persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence.’

real curiosity requires the exercise of effort.

‘Always make the audience suffer as much as possible’. Hitchcock was an information sadist.

The rest of Young’s steps depend and elaborate on his first. The second step is ‘the working over’.