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updated 18d ago
updated 18d ago
People tend not to be curious about things of which they are completely ignorant.
But in a complex world, it’s impossible to know what might be useful in the future. It’s important, therefore, to spread our cognitive bets. Curious people take risks,
Keely Adler added 2mo ago
If you are high in NFC, you are probably good at solving problems for your employer, because you’re really solving them for yourself.
CURIOSITY HAS BEEN CALLED “THE KNOWLEDGE EMOTION.”
In our adult lives it generates a restless desire for new information and new experiences. Just as it made us peer into rock pools as children, as adults it makes us refresh Twitter streams.
This is one of the secrets of curiosity. We don’t get allocated a fixed amount of it at birth. Instead, we inherit a mercurial quality that rises and falls through the day and throughout our lives. What’s more, its progress is deeply affected by the behavior of people around us, especially in those first months and years.
more state than trait. That is, our curiosity is highly responsive to the situation or environment we’re in. It follows that we can arrange our lives to stoke our curiosity or quash it.
But in a complex world, it’s impossible to know what might be useful in the future. It’s important, therefore, to spread our cognitive bets. Curious people take risks,
Unfettered curiosity is wonderful; unchanneled curiosity is not.
“Our comforting conviction the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”