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

enduring (epistemic) curiosity;

diversive curiosity manifests itself as a restless desire for the new and the next.

a truly curious person knows that she doesn’t always know what she wants to know about.

Third, because the culture discourages questioning.

recurring pattern in the history of innovation is the combination of something with its inverse to form a single invention: the clawhammer joined nail removal with nail driving; the pencil was joined with the eraser. By combining the hitherto opposed roles of businessman and hippie, Jobs provided a walking example of the same pattern.

A puzzle is something that commands our curiosity until we have solved it. A mystery, by contrast, never stops inviting enquiry.

Curiosity

Novels offer us a kind of mental simulation of real life encounters, giving us useful practice in how to interpret the intentions, motives, longings and frustrations of friends, enemies, neighbours and lovers.

our curiosity is highly responsive to the situation or environment we’re in.