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.

Diversive curiosity follows no particular process or method, but slides from one novel object of attention to the next.

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,

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

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.

Humans became the only species to acquire guidance on how to live from the accumulated knowledge of their ancestors,

As adults, however, we have a tendency to err too far toward exploitation—we become content to fall back on the stock of knowledge and mental habits we built up when we were young, rather than adding to or revising it. We get lazy.

The naughtiness of infants is experimental, a method of data collection.

Not being satisfied is what makes curiosity so satisfying.