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Curiosity and evolution
From an evolutionary perspective, there’s good reason to keep looking, to be curious.
Information helps us make better choices and adapt to a changing environment.
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Boredom alone can’t fully explain curiosity
The old view is that curiosity and boredom are opposite ends of the same continuum.
The new view: bored is not to curious as hungry is to full or thirsty is slaked. Rather, boredom is a signal that you’re not making good use of a part of the brain. And the...
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The information gap
In a 1994 paper, George Loewenstein theorized that curiosity’s direction is determined by the “information gap,” the sudden awareness of what you don’t know and the immediate desire to fill that gap.
But for the information gap to set its hook, though, it can’t be ...
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The paradox of curiosity
Curiosity doesn’t seem to be tied to any specific reward.
It makes sense for organisms to seek food, water, sex, shelter, rest, wealth, or any of the other myriad nourishing and pleasant things in life. But what is the good of deducing the nature of gravity, or of goin...
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Curiosity as a probability algorithm
Scientists who study the mechanics of curiosity are finding that it is, at its core, a kind of probability algorithm—our brain’s continuous calculation of which path or action is likely to gain us the most knowledge in the least amount of time. Like the links on a Wikipedia page,...
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Altruism and evolution
From an evolutionary point of view, altruism doesn’t seem to make any sense - human beings are basically selfish.
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3 main ways we can turn down the chatter in our heads
- Shifting our perspective
- Talking to others to get support; and
- Changing the environment around us
The first two work in moments of distress and allow us to make smarter choices, while the third is something that we can proactively do. How we think and how w...
Change The Environment
Often, our blocks result from us getting stuck in an unwanted pattern of thought. It becomes a routine and eventually an unwanted rut.
Changing your inner or outer environment disrupts our routines and can be incredibly effective at helping us broaden our perspective. U...
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