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

writer Kevin Drum, ‘The internet is making smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.’
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
In the second, curiosity becomes more social,
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
It is hardly possible to overstate the value in the present state of
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Mothers who asked more questions of their children had children who asked more questions of them.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
The rest of Young’s steps depend and elaborate on his first. The second step is ‘the working over’.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
This group of attitudes is consistently correlated with high achievement.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
‘absolutely no effort of a direct nature’. It is the stage at which the unconscious is allowed to go to work,
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Puzzles are stepping stones to mysteries. The more mysteries we pursue, the more knowledge we gather, the greater our intellectual and cultural range.