curiosity
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
One of the problems with being "rational" in your own estimation is that you are probably only being rational about one dimension of a surprisingly complex situation
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That’s the promise: you will live more curiously if you write. You will become a scientist, if not of the natural world than of whatever world you care about. More of that world will pop alive. You will see more when you look at it.
James Somers • JamesSomers – More people should write
‘The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.’ […]
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #98
What results is a national education system that deepens the economic class divide and makes curiosity available to those who have position, wealth, and the luxury of time without the burden of labor.
