When i was younger, i did a lot of empirical work and economics and etrun a rogression statistical technique. And your first impulse is to say, well, i dont wat to tink about thatjust that's a bad result. But there is a point, if you're grown up, you realize, oh my gosh, i discovered something, something i didn't know. The flame of curiosity oes not burn in a vacuum. Iit needs the fuel. You need to kind of feed ourselves and feed other people knowledge. In order to keep going. We ne'd to keep finding out stuff. That, to me, is kind of this wonderful, virtuous circle of curiosity.
Why are some people incurious? Is curiosity a teachable thing? And why, if all knowledge can be googled, is curiosity now the domain of a small elite? Listen as Ian Leslie, author of Curious, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts why curiosity is a critical virtue, why it's now in dangerous decline, and why, when it comes to what sustains long-term fascination, mysteries beat puzzles every time.