What makes us curious?

From Tim Harford’s “How to make the world add up”.

Per George Loewenstein a behavioral economist, curiously starts to glow when there is a gap between what we know and what we want to know. The sweet spot for curiosity is between knowing nothing and (the illusion of) knowing everything.

Curiosity is fueled once we know enough to know that we don’t know

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