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The Curiosity Matrix: 9 Habits of Curious Minds
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
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Keely Adler added
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
You don’t need to wait until your curiosity is automatically triggered. Make space for exploring, learning, wondering and mind wandering. Make curiosity a habit.
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Leo Guinan added
Making space is so important
If you’re not sure about what to do next, focus on what you’re curious about. While curiosity can sometimes lead to distraction, it’s also a powerful leading indicator for potential areas of personal & professional growth. You just need to leverage it with intention.
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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
Prior work has linked curiosity to happiness and innovation—two phenomena that are highly desirable in many cultures and societies. Curiosity is correlated with flourishing and physical activity, and is anticorrelated with depression.22 Moreover, curious people are often innovative people who have the capacity to be world changers by imagining a di
... See morePerry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
curiosity can be a double-edged sword. With so many ideas competing for your attention, it can be hard to decide which one to pursue. You might experience choice paralysis, unable to commit to a single project because you don’t want to miss out on the others. As a result, you may find yourself starting many projects but only finishing a few.
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Curiosity Conflict: Why We Struggle to Shift From Exploration to Exploitation
To be successful intellectually and professionally you need to maintain a level of disciplined curiosity, which means staying in touch with your deeper questions, and practicing the mechanics of divergent problem solving.