The Curiosity Matrix: 9 Habits of Curious Minds

Curiosity, we argue, is a capacity to connect—to build knowledge networks. Curiosity builds relationships between pieces of knowledge as much as between the people who want to know them. For this reason, we characterize curiosity as “edgework”—constantly laying down relationships between ideas, experiences, concepts, and objects in the world. Impor

Curiosity is a drive to acquire new information, or to gain new perspectives and new skills. It is through the acquisition of new information that new possibilities for the organism (and social organism) become activated. While that acquisitional (and novelty-centric) account has been useful over the years in studying curiosity from a variety of fi

Curiosity is a stance well suited to the inherent unpredictability of life with others, because it can be satisfied by their behaving in ways you like or dislike—whereas the stance of demanding a certain result is frustrated each time things fail to go your way.