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Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers — LessWrong

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Curiosity is a virtue. It promotes epistemic honesty, ignites creativity, and improves both competence and well-being. Multiple posts already discussed different types of curiosity the contrast between signalling curiosity and being curious, the scientific evidence behind curiosity, why curiosity seemed to leave children, even the limits of curiosity. Yet my own issues with curiosity come not with generating it but with keeping it. Everyday, a myriad of subjects and pieces of content spark the flame of curiosity in me; also everyday, recurring thoughts dampen, or sometimes blow out this flame. I thus need ways to address these thoughts more than techniques to become curious. What I call curiosity-stoppers -- inspired from but slightly different of this post from the Sequences -- brings a lot of negative to my life. My difficulties to focus on a specific topic of study stems in part from curiosity-stoppers in the way, which then make almost any other topic seems more interesting by cont

x Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers — LessWrong Curiosity Virtues Semantic Stopsign Rationality Frontpage 50 Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers by adamShimi 30th Jul 2020 11 min read 6 50 Introduction Curiosity is a virtue . It promotes epistemic honesty, ignites creativity, and improves both competence and well-being. Multiple posts already discussed different types of curiosity the contrast between signalling curiosity and being curious , the scientific evidence behind curiosity , why curiosity seemed to leave children , even the limits of curiosity . Yet my own issues with curiosity come not wit

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