Paul Smith

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 diff

You practise empathic curiosity when you genuinely try to put yourself in the shoes — and the mind — of the person you’re talking to; to see things from their perspective.

One of the primary skills that a child raised under concerted cultivation learns is how to come up with their own questions.

Curiosity

‘I live, live intensely, and am fed by life, and my value, whatever it might be, is my own kind of expression of that. Art makes life, makes interest, makes importance.’

there is a rising premium on people with a high ‘need for cognition’. Need for cognition, or NFC, is a scientific measure of intellectual curiosity.

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

The more we know, the better we are at thinking.