Introduction:
Curiosity: the fourth wheel drive of human beings inspires human beings to explore the unknown world constantly. Everyone is curious from birth. With the growth of age, curiosity gradually degenerates, leaving only the habit of learning and exploring. People who are curious are often smarter, more creative and more likely to succeed. So what deprived us of our curiosity?
In this book, Ian Leslie points out that it is wrong to think that curiosity does not need feedback, which underestimates the value of curiosity. Nowadays, cognition is increasingly monopolized by elites, and a "curious gap" is forming, which deepens our dependence on the Internet. Through smart phones, Google search and Wikipedia, we can immediately learn anything and answer any questions. But will it keep us curious? Maybe it just won't. Leslie believes that real curiosity is to keep exploring, thus generating insight and innovative spirit.
This book absorbs a lot of research results from psychology, economics, education and business, telling people what will fuel curiosity and what will starve it to death. Curiosity needs constant encouragement, reward and encouragement to become a habit, and it should be cultivated patiently in family, school and work.
This book is full of inspiring stories, case studies and practical suggestions. This is a book that can help you awaken curiosity and change people's understanding of curiosity.
Core content:
The core content is divided into three parts:
First, what is curiosity?
Second, why it is important to have curiosity;
Third, how to keep curiosity.
First, what is curiosity?
1. Primates have three driving forces: gender, food and place of residence. The difference between humans and primates is that they have a fourth driving force: curiosity. Animals sniff around in the bushes, perhaps to find food, perhaps to see if there are heterosexual partners, perhaps to find a place suitable for their lives. But unlike humans, it is entirely possible that humans just want to know what is in the bushes.
2. Curiosity is divided into entertaining curiosity and cognitive curiosity. Entertainment curiosity is extensive and shallow, while cognitive curiosity is persistent, which makes people gain more. Entertainment curiosity will make children stare at butterflies, and make adults constantly brush the latest news of Weibo and friends circle. Cognitive curiosity will make children look up relevant knowledge in encyclopedias and make adults concentrate on learning a subject or a language.
3. Curiosity is not fixed by birth. Parents can give their children more responses when they babble, encourage them and stimulate their curiosity.
Second, why is it important to be curious?
1. Curiosity will make us read more deeply and ask more accurately.
Charlie. Munger will work in a multi-model structure. Facing an enterprise, he will look at it from the perspective of mathematics, economics, engineering, psychology and other disciplines. This is closely related to his reading habits on weekdays. He read a large number of books on various subjects, thus gaining a multidisciplinary perspective.
Curiosity can also increase our experience in doing things, which will enrich our experience and enjoy the process of doing things more.
The researchers recruited 100 students to complete the first phase of fitness training, and wanted to test what role curiosity could play in this process. They let half the students focus on their own goals and emphasize the importance of results; Let the other half of the students focus on their feelings, such as what it feels like to stretch during fitness. Let students concentrate on the training process, and students will be curious about their physical feelings. Therefore, students who want the process like training better than those who want the result.
Third, how can we keep curiosity?
1. Extensive knowledge accumulation
If you are a musician, you must reserve a lot of music knowledge. If you were born on an isolated island and have never listened to music, you may imitate birdsong, but you are unlikely to write the fifth symphony.
2. Always keep an open attitude towards new things and be curious about new industries and new knowledge.
Jobs was kicked out of the company he founded. After leaving the company, he was deeply attracted by a new digital animation technology. Jobs bought this small department he was interested in and set up an independent company for it. The animation company founded by Jobs has produced excellent works such as Toy Story and Monster Power Company. The name of this company is Pixar. The existence of Pixar, even for a long time, threatened the survival of Disney.
3. Find fun in boredom and always observe the world and life around you with interesting eyes.
Laura? McInerney used to be an ordinary college student and worked in McDonald's. During the working hours of eating breakfast every day, she has to deal with more than 400 eggs, repeating the process of breaking, breaking, frying and taking out. This is an extremely boring job. But gradually, she became interested in eggs and began to think about how eggs solidified. She suddenly felt that every egg in front of her eyes had become a small battlefield. Protein is fighting "heat" fiercely, and she begins to observe every egg. Because of eggs, she sometimes thinks of Germany in Weimar period, which the teacher said in history class. The price of an egg has changed from a quarter of Deutsche Mark to 4 billion Deutsche Mark. Later, it was because of the inspiration brought by eggs that Laura had a deep understanding of cultivating curiosity and developing interest, which also enabled her to obtain a Fulbright scholarship to study for a doctorate in education.
Curiosity is also one of the basic characteristics of human nature. In addition to in-depth reading and questioning, curiosity is also an important driving force to promote social progress and scientific and technological development. It drives us to explore the unknown world and discover a bright future.