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

Curiosity

‘a curious octopus.

‘The closer you look at anything, the more interesting it gets. But nobody tells you this.’

mystery, says Abrams, ‘demands that you stop and consider — or, at the very least, slow down and discover.’

In the fifth and final stage, the idea is prodded, tested, tweaked and massaged into reality.

Diversive curiosity makes us want to know what lies on the other side of the mountain; epistemic curiosity arms us with the knowledge we need to survive when we get there.

J.S. Mill

Puzzles are stepping stones to mysteries. The more mysteries we pursue, the more knowledge we gather, the greater our intellectual and cultural range.

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