curiosity
by Prashanth Narayan and · updated 15h ago
curiosity
- Questions are also indications of directions of curiosity. They remind me of desire paths : pathways in the grass that emerge organically from people's natural patterns of movement instead of prescribed routes. They’re such a wonderfully human example of how we like to follow impulse and intuition to find the most direct (or appealing way) to get s... See more
from questions are desire paths of curiosity
Sindhu Shivaprasad added 15h ago
- Knowledge responds to the gravitational pull of questions: new questions, and new questions about old questions.
from questions are desire paths of curiosity
Sindhu Shivaprasad added 15h ago
- Interestingly, echo chambers also come with benefits, not only for their “residents,” but also for society at large. In fact, they might be essential as markers—and makers—of shared identity and values, places of belonging and comfort. Isn’t any community, by definition, an echo chamber? The House of Beautiful Business certainly is. We have no illu... See more
from 🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
- The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
What solitude gives you is an opportunity to study what personal curiosity feels like in its undiluted form, free from the interference of other considerations. Being familiar with the character of this feeling makes it easier to recognize if you are reacting to the potential in the work you are doing in a genuinely personal way, or if you are givi
... See morefrom Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
Even if you know what it feels like to be completely open to where your curiosity wants you to go, like Grothendieck, it is a fragile state. It often takes considerable work to keep the creative state from collapsing, especially as your work becomes successful and the social expectations mount. When I listen to interviews with creative people or re
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Keely Adler added 1mo ago
But in a complex world, it’s impossible to know what might be useful in the future. It’s important, therefore, to spread our cognitive bets. Curious people take risks,
from Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.
from From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
Not just reading more, but whom I read and how I read. Including authors in reading lists can be a mere “[indication] of engagement, but as such that ‘engagement’ can be a very superficial one, one which acknowledges the existence of a body of work through name-checking, but which fails to attend to, disseminate, reinforce, or critique the detail o
... See morefrom #Collabrary: A Methodological Experiment for Reading With Reciprocity by Max Liboiron
Keely Adler added 1mo ago