curiosity
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.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Keely Adler added 6mo
The most sustainable and potent motivation is experiencing joy and curiosity within an activity. Cultivate joy for exercise and fascination with fitness to remove the need for constant external motivation.
Sam Sager • Exploring Our Why
Stuart Evans added 1y
Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt: 9780525432975 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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Laura Pike Seeley added 2y
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
Stuart Evans added 4mo
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
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
Sindhu Shivaprasad added 5mo
Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
Alexander von Humboldtthemarginalian.org
Keely Adler added 2y
Keely Adler added 2y
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
Supritha S added 1y
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 6mo
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,
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Keely Adler added 6mo