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In a complex world, seek out the curious
Curious people, whether they’re inventors, adventurers, athletes or kids, are often the most fascinating.
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Curiosity sits well with kids. Adults get so bloated with hubris that we turn tedious, says the writer.
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Facts packed away into cartons? Wisdom deposited into dumpsters? How does one throw knowledge away? My friend, SH, gloomily wonders sometimes. In his mother’s house, shelves creak with dusty information. A series on mythology, old Time-Life books on the primates and the poles, multiple volumes of The Book Of Knowledge. What will happen to them?
Who, in this scrolling, twittering, googling age will want them?
