No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient
What I call temporal curiosity is the practice of actively directing our curiosity across time – past, present, future – to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Past curiosity. Directing our curiosity towards the past can help us understand our origins and learn from history. By exploring past experiences from y... See more
Past curiosity. Directing our curiosity towards the past can help us understand our origins and learn from history. By exploring past experiences from y... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Temporal Curiosity: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future
These are not just questions from a particularly fiendish pub quiz. They’re three of the nineteen prompts used by researchers8 at the University of California Davis Center for Neuroscience in a pioneering experiment. After asking a group of twenty-four volunteers these questions, they asked each of them to rate how much they cared about the answers
... See moreAli Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Devotion to Inquisitiveness I believe that curiosity is the secret. Curiosity is the truth and the way of creative living. Curiosity is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. Furthermore, curiosity is accessible to everyone. Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times—a distant tower of flame, accessible only to geniuses and
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
four ways of involuntarily inducing curiosity in humans: (1) the ‘posing of a question or presentation of a puzzle’; (2) ‘exposure to a sequence of events with an anticipated but unknown resolution’; (3) ‘the violation of expectations that triggers a search for an explanation’; (4) knowledge of ‘possession of information by someone else’.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
Margaret Leigh added
We lose the feeling that comes with a little mystery and a healthy amount of risk. When we don’t know exactly what’s going to happen, you know what happens? We get to be surprised. Our anticipation builds in the not knowing – better get there early to figure out getting in, ask others if it’s their first time, scan a pamphlet for clues or read seat... See more
Elise Granata • What We Lose When Optimizing Community
Agalia Tan and added
If diversive curiosity is the flash and splash of novel stimuli, epistemic curiosity is a path you want to keep travelling down, even when the road is bumpy.