Curious the desire to know and why your future depends on it
"Today it seems we have the world at our fingertips. Thanks to smartphones and tools such as Google and Wikipedia, we're able to feed any aspect of our curiosity instantly. But does this mean we are actually becoming more curious? Absolutely not. In Curious, Ian Leslie argues that true cur...
| Main Author: | Leslie, Ian, 1972- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction.
- The fourth drive
- Part 1.
- How curiosity works. Three journeys
- How curiosity begins
- Puzzles and mysteries
- Part 2.
- The curiosity divide. Three ages of curiosity
- The curiosity dividend
- The power of questions
- The importance of knowing
- Part 3.
- Staying curious. Seven ways to stay curious: Stay foolish
- Build the database
- Forage like a foxhog
- Ask the big why
- Be a thinkerer
- Question your teaspoons
- Turn puzzles into mysteries
- Afterword:
- Bjarni.