writer Kevin Drum, ‘The internet is making smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.’

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.

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

In a high-information, highly competitive world, it’s crucial to know one or two big things and to know them in more depth and detail than most of your contemporaries. But to really ignite that knowledge, you need the ability to think about it from a variety of eclectic perspectives and to be able to collaborate fruitfully with people who have

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

The major index of the rise in empathic curiosity was literature: fiction, drama and poetry.

Middle-class parents are more likely to pursue a policy of concerted cultivation.

Freeman Dyson

When all our interest is directed at the future, we get easily bored with the present.