Curious by Ian Leslie
Book: Curious by Ian Leslie
Children are most willing to learn when they display curiosity (point and ask questions). If you respond, you are encouraging their curiosity. If you don’t respond, you not only withhold the answer from them, you also reduce their urge to learn.
We are curious when there is an appropriate information gap - there is little curiosity when we know too little or too much (this can be applied to dating profiles - put enough but not too much information).
Difference between puzzles and mysteries: puzzles have a definite one answer, mysteries don’t. The education system mostly teaches in puzzles, whereas mysteries are more helpful to learning. We learn better when we find learning difficult.
Cognitive divide: “The Internet is making smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.”