No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient
Curiosity is a stance well suited to the inherent unpredictability of life with others, because it can be satisfied by their behaving in ways you like or dislike—whereas the stance of demanding a certain result is frustrated each time things fail to go your way.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“The Psychology of Curiosity: A Review and Reinterpretation.”
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
Curiosity requires an edge of uncertainty to thrive; too much uncertainty and it freezes.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
These are not just questions from a particularly fiendish pub quiz. They’re three of the nineteen prompts used by researchers8 at the University of California Davis Center for Neuroscience in a pioneering experiment. After asking a group of twenty-four volunteers these questions, they asked each of them to rate how much they cared about the answers
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