The Importance of Curiosity
Curiosity Weekly
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How Curious Can Help You Learn Incidental Information You're Not So Curious About?
Researchers from the university of california davis recruited 19 volunteers to read more than a hundred trivial questions. They found that when people were curious about the answers, they better remembered them 24 hours later. The take home message: if you need to learn something, put it in the context of something you're curious about. And i think what we don't have necessarily a handle on is how we go from having this quick passing interest in something to going into it really deep and maybe devote their whole lives to one thing. That's the bit that we don't fully understand.
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