Taylor Hunter
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Taylor Hunter
I've always felt a kinship with raccoons and there were a lot of them living in the woods around our house growing up. I love their curious natures, and it is that aspect that is represented in this card. I believe that curiosity is one of the most powerful traits we can have. When used for good, it builds bridges between different cultures, it
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The best way to teach curiosity is to throw ourselves at living. To make life our classroom, and our tremendous bundles of experiences our curriculum.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Radical Curiosity questions commonly held beliefs to imagine flourishing futures. To be radically curious is to challenge the narratives inherited from the past and author new stories that reflect who we are and what we value today. It is to recognize when our collective wisdom, like any outdated technology, needs an operating system upgrade.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Philosopher and psychologist William James (1899) called curiosity “the impulse towards better cognition,” meaning that it is the desire to understand what you know that you do not.
This early definition of curiosity, he said, later givesway to a “higher, more intellectual form”—an impulse towards more complete scientific andphilosophic knowledge.
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Celeste Kidd and Benjamin Y. Hayden*
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY
But curiosity without direction can be a taxing and ultimately unproductive endeavor. Choice is how we tame and channel and direct our curiosity, where we choose to allocate our time and energy, and ultimately, what we choose to pay attention to.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
I hate looking into my trash can. When I lived alone, I was usually the only one filling that trash bag, and it made me very aware of the physicality of my existence. It felt absolutely deplorable, how quickly I would restock my trash can, as if I were capitalism itself’s most dutiful employee
Garbage Anxiety: Intimacy and Interconnection at the Landfill by Vasi Bjeletich
THE FUNCTION OF CURIOSITY
Although information is intangible, it has real value to any organism with the capacity to make use of it. The benefits may accrue immediately or in the future; the delayed benefits require a learning system. Not surprisingly then, the most popular theory about the function of curiosity is to motivate learning.
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Celeste Kidd and Benjamin Y. Hayden*
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY