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Colin Mustful's avatar

Sky Fisher is now my thought leader. Oops... I mean, Sky Fisher has some novel ideas. I should interrogate them further 😀

Seriously, though. Great stuff as always. The power of critical thinking is immeasurable. Sadly, I'm guilty of all the things you've pointed out here. I have become too busy to ask questions of anyone or anything. Just a few months ago I had my hip replaced and I don't think I asked a single question. So, thank you for this reminder. I listened to it while folding my laundry.

P.S. My favorite part was the poor goat(s) that fell off the cliff. It makes sense.

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Sky Fisher's avatar

I always look forward to your feedback. I also feel bad about the goats but they had to go. Or did they?! Either way, they went.

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Colin Mustful's avatar

Man, I’m just so honored that you know I exist. Keep writing, keep being.

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Jack's avatar

Yes omg I think about this all the time. And curiosity is associated with so many other amazing things at a neuroscience level too

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Sky Fisher's avatar

Exactly. This all sort of crystallized for me when I realized that the majority of self-help and personal development traits said to make people magnetic are the natural result of being curious. We’re at a point where teaching people how to convincingly fake curiosity is a product worth billions of dollars…

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sol's avatar

My personal mantra has always that the quality of your livelihood depends on the quality of the questions you ask. Another very timely essay, thank you for being so refreshingly humanistic

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