Curiosity
"A creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not twice or three times, but daily. Systematically. It becomes your habit and practice to say, I don't even know why I'm interested in this, but I'm interested in it, and I'm going to look into it." — Elizabeth Gilbert
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“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”
— Walt Whitman
— Walt Whitman
poetrypilled • poetrypilled (@poetrypilled)
Disney once said,
This relentless curiosity drives us to create tools and technologies that push the boundaries of what’s possible.
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
This relentless curiosity drives us to create tools and technologies that push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Steve Jobs on Human Ingenuity: The Bicycle for the Mind
"A man is the sum of his projects"
This has been my motto for the past year.
it doesn't matter if you're building rockets to go to mars or building model trains in the basement.
man is happiest when fully engaged in a project.... See more
Shaan Purix.comKnowing is not enough. Knowing too much can encourage us to procrastinate. There's a certain point when continuing to know at the expense of doing allows the mess to grow further
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess
"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. Every human society is, in Mark Pagel’s words, a ‘cultural survival vehicle’, rich in accumulated knowledge. Every baby is born with a powerful urge to explore it." (Ian Leslie,
... See more“I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more