charmed..................

 

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.  An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.  To have many of these is to be spiritually rich.  Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to those who have neither art nor science, the world is a mere arrangement of colours, or a rough footway where they may very well break their shins.  It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure.

-Robert Louis Stevenson, from his essay El Dorado

On fixing wrong turns................

 

The willingness to be corrected, to seek feedback, and to stay a perpetual student is the mechanism of mastery.

-Austin Scholar, from this substack

True even for non-low stakes.............

 

When stakes are low, possibility is our playground. Curiosity is our guide. Mistakes are data. And the real reward is in watching yourself evolve.

-Tanmay Vora, from here

can't help but be....................

 

Nature is our home, and in nature we are at home.

     This strange, multicolored, and astonishing world that we explore—where space is granular, time does not exist, and things are nowhere—is not something that estranges us from our true selves, for this is only what our natural curiosity reveals to us about the place of our dwelling.  About the stuff of which we ourselves are made.  We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy, we are being nothing other than what we can't help but be: a part of our world.

Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

It's simple, really...................

 

Experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.  A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind that loves diagnosis involving multiple variables.  And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

-Charlie Munger

curious..................

 

I was born curious.  If that doesn't work for you, figure out your own damn system.

-Charlie Munger

Curiosity..............................

 

.............is supposed to fend for itself, apparently.

at it's best your education's.............

 

..................main motive is to fuel your curiosity and teach you how to find out things for yourself. 

a product.......................

 

Material possessions can be here today and gone tomorrow, and if your happiness is tied up in them, it too can be here today and gone tomorrow.  But happiness, a product of a mindset that combines curiosity, the joy of perpetual intellectual discovery, and an appreciation of life's experiences, can be more lasting.

-Gad Saad,  The Saad Truth About Happiness

astray....................

 

. . . a man unaware of his ignorance will be led astray by his knowledge.

-Rob Firchau

stoked.............................

. . . curiosity is a strange drive.  Unlike hunger or thirst, curiosity is stoked, not sated, when we learn more.

-Scott H. Young, Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery 

Independent-mindedness...............

 

....................or, how to think for yourself:

The three components of independent-mindedness work in concert: fastidiousness about truth and resistance to being told what to think leave space in your brain, and curiosity finds new ideas to fill it.

curious creatures............................

       We're curious creatures, aren't we?  We are very good at bucking each other up.  Your friend falls down; you give them a hand up, tell them it's going to be okay.  How many of us do that for ourselves?

-William Shatner, Boldly Go: Reflections On A Life Of Awe And Wonder

attitude precedes outcome............

 "We want solutions, but what we really need are attitudes.  You don't need abs, but rather an attitude of training. You don't need the answer, but rather an attitude of curiosity. You don't need an easier life, but rather an attitude of perseverance.   Attitude precedes outcome.

-James Clear, from here 

On doing great work..............

 The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive. Sometimes they converge, and that combination is the most powerful of all.

-Paul Graham, from this essay

But........................

 

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A good question to ask yourself........

...................Why aren’t you curious about this?

Here is the money take...........................

 ................on San Francisco's reparations plan:

The plan would cost an estimated $600,000 per household. Just out of morbid curiosity about what literally happens to the city if this plan goes through, I’m in favor. Also, after the exodus of people fleeing to avoid this new tax, there’ll be a lot of nice properties around for cheap. I’d like one of those. So let’s do this.

-via

the edge.........................

 In a competition between someone who knows the most and someone who is willing to learn the most, the edge usually goes to the curious and empathic professional, not the one who is simply protecting what’s already known.

-Seth Godin

On curiosity......................

 Perhaps there is no better skill to have and master than the skill of curiosity. . . . Learning requires you being open, interested, and ready to lean into differences. It requires surrendering being judgmental. It is impossible to be curious and judgmental at the same time. Curiosity is different than just asking a lot of questions. Curiosity is a deeper more soulful interest. People who are genuinely curious ask great questions because it originates from an authentic place. Asking questions without curiosity is just obnoxious.

-Mike Staver, from here