Most things in life don’t come with a recipe to follow. It requires us to use some judgement and make a decision without knowing how it’ll turn out. The root of almost everything interesting you see around you stems from someone letting their curiosity off leash.

A curiosity driven observer who learns skills of interest, rather than a fervent optimiser.

As is said: "Most of the breakthrough discoveries and remarkable inventions throughout history, from flints for starting a fire to self-driving cars, have something in common: They are the result of curiosity. The impulse to seek new information and... See more

To do this well is difficult, and is the explore-exploit dilemma. We’re taught to use the time in school or university to explore, at least a little bit, and use almost all other available time to exploit. This dilemma is one of the most fundamental problems in decision sciences, intractable with an easy answer.