curiosity
Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Intellectual humility is also associated with the desire to learn new information. People who are high in intellectual humility score higher in epistemic curiosity, which is the motivation to pursue new knowledge and ideas. Their higher curiosity seems to be motivated both by the fact they enjoy learning new information and by the distress they
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Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one’s own unique perspective. It doesn’t matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneously discovering and creating “yourself,”
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