Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie. Through the many years I have spent on this earth, I have to admit that there have been many books which I started to read and chose to not waste my time to laboriously finish the books. We all know the saying: ‘Soo many books and soo little time’. Drawing on fascinating research from psychology, economics, education, and business, Leslie looks at what feeds curiosity and what starves it, and finds surprising answers. Curiosity is a mental muscle that atrophies without regular exercise and a habit that parents, schools, and workplaces need to Cited by: · Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie. Leslie outlines why curiosity is core to what it means to be human, how to foster it in children and how to help yourself remain curious throughout your life. Curiosity, asking the question of “why” is uniquely human. Curiosity is unruly and the trait of misfits.
In Curious Ian Leslie makes a passionate case for the cultivation of our desire to know. Curious people tend to be smarter, more creative and more successful. But at the very moment when the rewards of curiosity have never been higher, it is misunderstood and undervalued, and increasingly practised only by a cognitive elite. Drawing on. Ian Leslie har skrevet en fremragende bog om nysgerrighed. Her fokuserer jeg på hans opdeling af "mysteries" og "puzzles". I anledningen af min nye bog om ny. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It. Curious.: Ian Leslie. House of Anansi Press Incorporated, - Psychology - pages. 2 Reviews. The latest from Ian Leslie, the author of Born Liars, a Globe and Mail Top Book, is a fascinating look at the human characteristic of curiosity — our extraordinary.
Ian Leslie's book does a good job of addressing not only the importance of curiosity but also why it declines and how to preserve it. As he points out "curiosity is vulnerable to benign neglect." It needs to be cultivated and supported. It is a habit that needs to be fostered by continued practice. Often we don't get that practice. Ian Leslie’s Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It is a well-researched book that cites a number of relevant scientific studies, frames concepts related to knowledge and curiosity with interesting anecdotes, and has a solid bibliography for the curious people to dive further after finishing Curious. In Curious Ian Leslie makes a passionate case for the cultivation of our desire to know. Curious people tend to be smarter, more creative and more successful. But at the very moment when the rewards of curiosity have never been higher, it is misunderstood and undervalued, and increasingly practised only by a cognitive elite.
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