A New Experiment on Exactly How Curiosity Enhances Performance
Curiosity is the Secret Ingredient to Elevating Your Performance With A Few Costs
In today's information age, curiosity is king. Think about all those websites that tweak their headlines and ads to make you click (17 Divorced People who Remarried Their Ex Revealed What Happened After!). Meanwhile, companies claim to share information—like drug or financial disclosures—but do it in a way that doesn't draw your attention. Consider this the power of selectively keeping people incurious.
Right now, the best way to spark curiosity is through trial and error, much like what internet content creators do. Although we don't have a magic formula for curiosity, we believe our new experimental research led by Dr. Lukasz D. Kaczmarek points the way. It's important to understand how the brain processes things like meaning-making and learning progress.
Do you want to know why curiosity stands as one of the three pillars for peak performance?
Fancy a peek into the minds of curious folks when they encounter something new?
And what happens when these curious characters must abruptly exit these situations?
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