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Why aren't you curious about what happened?

[A]"You suspended Ray Rice after our video," areporter from TMZ challenged National FootballLeague Commissioner Roger Goodell the other day. "Why didn't you have the curiosity to go to thecasino (赌场) yourself?" The implication of thequestion is that a more curious commissioner wouldhave found a way to get the tape.

[B]The accusation of incuriosity is one that we hear often, carrying the suggestion that thereis something wrong with not wanting to search out the truth. "I have been bothered for a longtime about the curious lack of curiosity," said a Democratic member of the New Jerseylegislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of anassistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who chose not to ask hard question about theGeorge Washington Bridge traffic scandal. "Isn't the mainstream media the least bit curiousabout what happened?" wrote conservative writer Jennifer Rubin earlier this year, referring tothe attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

[C]The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is aproblem. Are such accusations simply efforts to score political points for one's party? Or isthere something of particular value about curiosity in and of itself?

[D]The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know andWhy Your Future Depends on It, insists that the answer to that last question is 'Yes'. Leslieargues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and that weare losing it.

[E]We are suffering, he writes, from a "serendipity deficit." The word "serendipity" was coinedby Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who "were always makingdiscoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of." Leslie worries that the rise of theInternet, among other social and technological changes, has reduced our appetite for aimlessadventures. No longer have we the inclination to let ourselves wander through fields ofknowledge, ready to be surprised. Instead, we seek only the information we want.

[F]Why is this a problem? Because without curiosity we will lose the spirit of innovation andentrepreneurship. We will see unimaginative governments and dying corporations makedisastrous decisions. We will lose a vital part of what has made humanity as a whole sosuccessful as a species.

[G]Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole isgrowing less curious. In the U.S and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet has led to adeclining consumption of news from outside the reader's borders. But not everything is to beblamed on technology. The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causesidentified by Leslie. Reading literary fiction, he says, make us more curious.

[H]Moreover, in order to be curious, "you have to be aware of a gap in your knowledge in thefirst place." Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us areunaware of how much we don't know, he's surely right to point out that the problem isgrowing: "Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers."

[I]Indeed, Google, for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequent whipping body(替罪羊). He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the "perfect search engine" will "understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want." Elsewhere in thebook, Leslie writes: "Google aims to save you from the thirst of curiosity altogether."

[J]Somewhat nostalgically (怀旧地), he quotes John Maynard Keynes's justly famous words ofpraise to the bookstore: "One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what isthere freely to attract and influence the eye. To walk the rounds of the bookshops, dipping in ascuriosity dictates, should be an afternoon's entertainment." If only!

[K]Citing the work of psychologists and cognitive (认知的) scientists, Leslie criticizes thereceived wisdom that academic success is the result of a combination of intellectual talentand hard work. Curiosity, he argues, is the third key factor—and a difficult one to preserve. Ifnot cultivated, it will not survive: "Childhood curiosity is a collaboration between child andadult. The surest way to kill it is to leave it alone."

[L]School education, he warns, is often conducted in a way that makes children incurious. Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even atearly ages, than children of working class and lower class families. That lack of curiosityproduces a relative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossibleto compensate for later on

[M]Although Leslie's book isn't about politics, he doesn't entirely shy away from the problem. Political leaders, like leaders of other organizations, should be curious. They should askquestions at crucial moments. There are serious consequence, he warns, in not wanting toknow.

[N]He presents as an example the failure of the George W. Bush administration to prepareproperly for the after-effects of the invasion of Iraq. According to Leslie, those who ridiculedformer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his 2002 remark that we have to be wary of the"unknown unknowns" were mistaken. Rumsfeld's idea, Leslie writes, " wasn't absurd—it wassmart." He adds, "The tragedy is that he didn't follow his own advice."

[O]All of which brings us back to Goodell and the Christie case and Benghazi. Each critic inthose examples is charging, in a different way, that someone in authority is intentionallybeing curious. I leave it to the reader's political preference to decide which, if any, chargesshould stick. But let's be careful about demanding curiosity about the other side'sweaknesses and remanding determinedly incurious about our own. We should be delighted topursue knowledge for its own sake—even when what we find out is something we didn'tparticularly want to know.

36.To be curious, we need to realize first of all that there are many things we don't know.

37.According to Leslie, curiosity is essential to one's success.

38.We should feel happy when we pursue knowledge for knowledge's sake.

39.Political leaders' lack of curiosity will result in bad consequences.

40.There are often accusations about politicians' and the media's lack of curiosity to find outthe truth

41.The less curious a child is, the less knowledge the child may turn out to have.

42.It is widely accepted that academic accomplishment lies in both intelligence anddiligence.

43.Visiting a bookshop as curiosity leads us can be a good way to entertain ourselves.

44.Both the rise of the Internet and reduced appetite for literary fiction contribute topeople's declining curiosity.

45.Mankind wouldn't be so innovative without curiosity.

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