Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover

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What’s the point? what’s the goal?… The main reason is to spark your own exploration and discovery. Just like with any other topic, like creativity or business, reading about curiosity will put you in the right frame of mind, to dive deep and take action. Tweet Me In ancient times curiosity was viewed with suspicion. The essayist and philosopher Plutarch considered curiosity a disease and advocated leaving letters unopened and not consummating a marriage. Photograph: Alamy We hear the term “intellectual curiosity” bantered about so often these days. Ian Leslie goes beyond the rhetoric to remove any ambiguity about what this term really means and why it’s something that we need to embrace. He does so without preaching and also shows the reader HOW to accomplish the embrace. Curiosity for the world within and outside ourselves has made the human body evolve, has helped the human mind expand, and our civilization thrive. Thanks to curiosity, the many unknowns that lie ahead can be seen for what they truly are, opportunities. Tweet me Kitabın sonlarına doğru yeralan Dante’nin Cehennem, Araf ve Cennet haritalarını gösteren üç ayrı şekil de sürpriz bir toparlama oldu. Sonuçta Alberto Manguel, Dante’nin “İlahi Komedya”sını hayali bir evrensel müzeye, bilinçdışı korkular ve arzuların icra edilebileceği bir sahneye, bir şairin tutkusu ve vizyonundan doğmuş her şeyin bizi aydınlatmak için düzenlendiği ve sergilendiği bir kütüphaneye benzetiyor.

In Curious, author Ian Leslie puts together research, anecdotes and knowledge from various fields including history, psychology, education, and science to explain the nature of curiosity, how it works, and how to cultivate it.⁣ I've been slow-reading this, and remember the era of the first few chapters when the two main types of curiosity are discussed - Diversive (shallow/fleeting) and Epistemic (deep/effortful). There is also Empathic curiosity. Be a thinkerer. Like Benjamin Franklin do both the experimenting and the thinking and the tinkering.

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The book is divided into 3 parts. In the first part the author discusses curiosity early in life, types of curiosity, and the difference between puzzles and mysteries. The second part explores the history of curiosity and the importance of questions and knowledge. The third part describes seven ways to stay curious.⁣There are two types of curiosity: diversive and epistemic. There are actually three types of curiosity with the third being empathetic, but the author barely gives empathetic curiosity airtime. I like it when a book teaches me new things. I really like it when it expands my sense of possibility, and whets my appetite to go deeper (epistemic-me). I love it when a book can unsettle me enough to allow for growth to happen. Manguel é dono de uma impressionante biblioteca com mais de 30 000 volumes, que tem transportado consigo ao longo da sua vida pelos vários países em que viveu — Israel, Argentina, Canada e França. I particularly enjoyed the analysis of the correlation between knowledge and curiosity, and that learning more about a topic creates more interest in it. As a grown-up, I am responsible for giving my children a basis of knowledge that opens up wider horizons for them to be curious about. It is not enough to hand them a laptop and tell them to explore whatever they are interested in. The randomness of the information they will find online will rather kill their wish to know more than make them develop further interest in it.