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Curious
Curious
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Ebook en format . Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Éditeur:
House of Anansi Press Inc
Protection:
Format ouvert - aucune protection
Année de parution:
2014
ISBN-13: 9781770895003
Description:
<p><strong>The latest from Ian Leslie, the author of <em>Born Liars</em>, a <em>Globe and Mail</em> Top 100 Book, is a fascinating look at the human characteristic of curiosity — our extraordinary capacity to take pleasure in discovering, learning, and understanding.</strong></p><p><em>Curious</em> shows how the practice of “deep curiosity” — persistent, self-reflective seeking of knowledge and insight — is key to the success of our careers, the happiness of our children, the strength of our relationships, and the progress of societies. But it also argues that it is a fragile quality, which wanes and waxes over time, and that we take it for granted at our peril. Ian Leslie proposes that the Internet is opening up a “curiosity gap,” by exacerbating the divide between those with a large cognitive appetite, and those happy knowing no more than they have to know; between the curious and the incurious. He draws on many sources and stories to illustrate his points: Benjamin Franklin at Portsmouth Harbour studying the effect of oil on choppy waters; a bored Galileo distracting himself in a Pisa cathedral by observing the swinging of a recently lit lamp; Leonardo da Vinci doodling ideas in his notebook; Google co-founder Larry Page’s thoughts on the perfect search engine; the invention of the microwave oven; the advantages of your local bookseller over Amazon’s algorithms; a reassessment of Donald Rumsfeld’s defense strategy, and many more.</p><p>Rich, textured, and exciting, <em>Curious</em> is a new take on the most absorbing human trait of all.</p>