It’s very difficult to maintain a thriving curiosity without it being somewhat random. In his essay on curiosity, philosopher David Hume noted that there is a pleasure to be had simply in the “invention and discovery” of truth, whatever it might be. The curious will find themselves drawn to anything that stimulates this delight.
ReadPizzas don’t order themselves and life as a whole is even less obliging. Chance will play its part whatever we do, but it will dictate everything only if we let it.
Read“I used to need 4,000 people looking at me, now I’m down to 400.”
ReadWhen we think about big egos, we tend to think of cocky alphas, those self-satisfied, arrogant cigar-chewing successes – always other people, of course. But forget about individuals for a moment. Does Homo sapiens, as a species, need to have an inflated sense of itself in order to succeed?
ReadHow can we, as adults, make promises on behalf of the people we will be in five, 10, 20 years or more?
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