Category: Book Snippets
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From “from bacteria to back…” by Daniel C. Dennett : Four degrees of intelligence, or comprehension of the world.
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Awakening curiosity in everyone to ‘make the world add up’
From Tim Harford’s conclusion to his brilliant “How to make the world add up” :
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”
