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For a great payoff be especially curious about the things you are not interested in.

Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Within contemporary accounts in both fields, curiosity is typically understood as an organism’s motivation to acquire and accumulate knowledge.

Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

Curiosity is a drive to acquire new information, or to gain new perspectives and new skills. It is through the acquisition of new information that new possibilities for the organism (and social organism) become activated. While that acquisitional (and novelty-centric) account has been useful over the years in studying curiosity from a variety of

Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility

It was a multi-armed bandit problem. This problem, which, under a different name, had first been studied by the biologist William R. Thompson in 1933, centers on a rather surreal thought experiment. A gambler faces a slot machine (“a one-armed bandit”), except this machine doesn’t have one arm—following some twisted dream logic, it has k arms, arms... See more

Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On

Collective curiosity is the practice of exploring questions and discovering answers together, where we build on each other’s insights and create an environment that encourages open inquiry and shared learning.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Multiplier Effect of Collective Curiosity

They are also the ones most likely to make creative connections between different fields, of the kind that leads to new ideas, and the ones best suited to working in multi-disciplinary teams. Consequently, they are the ones whose jobs are least likely to be taken by intelligent machines; in a world where technology is rapidly replacing humans even

Ian Leslie • Curious

Allow yourself to go down rabbit holes

A rabbit hole is not a distraction. A rabbit hole is your brain trying to tell you to pay attention to something you’re curious about. Ignore algorithmic rabbit holes.

If you see something, save something

Pay attention to what feels resonant to you. Save breadcrumbs and build a path for yourself to walk down... See more