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

Curious learners go deep, and they go wide.

CURIOSITY HAS BEEN CALLED “THE KNOWLEDGE EMOTION.”

If you are high in NFC, you are probably good at solving problems for your employer, because you’re really solving them for yourself.

We are part biological organism, part cultural; we need both sunlight and knowledge to thrive.

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.

Unfettered curiosity is wonderful; unchanneled curiosity is not.

It is sobering to think that even at such an early age, infants are capable of telling whether or not you’re an idiot—a judgment that, when you think about it, demands substantial cognitive and social abilities.

B. F. Skinner, the great experimental psychologist, advised, “When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study

People tend not to be curious about things of which they are completely ignorant.