#042 - Dr Mario Livio - What Makes Us Curious?
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mario Livio is an internationally known astrophysicist, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a best-selling author, and a popular speaker.
In his new book “Why? What Makes Us Curious”, Dr Livio delves into the subtleties and nuances of what constitutes our human capacity for curiosity and uses examples from Leonardo Da Vinci, Richard Feynman & many more to demonstrate the manifestation of curiosity throughout history.
Expect to learn the different types of curiosity and their roles in our lives, how you can cultivate a more curious mindset for yourself & those around you, and who Dr Livio considers to be the most curious individual ever to have lived.
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Why? What Makes Us Curious - http://amzn.eu/d/i0VNbPW
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. This week I'm sitting down with Dr. Mario Livio. He's an internationally |
| 0:07.4 | known astrophysicist, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, |
| 0:12.6 | bestselling author and a popular speaker. His new book Why, What Makes Curious, is a |
| 0:18.6 | bit of a departure away from his previous topics on physics and astrophysics, and it's |
| 0:25.9 | really, really interesting. The field of curiosity is a lot deeper and more complex than |
| 0:31.7 | I thought. Curiosity sounds like one word. Turns out that it is a whole host of very different |
| 0:38.6 | and subtle things that all contribute together to manifest what we consider to be curiosity. |
| 0:45.6 | So through the lens of the great Richard Feynman, Leonardo da Vinci and many of the famous |
| 0:50.8 | historic examples, Dr. Livio manages to lay out a lovely landscape for us to understand |
| 0:56.0 | curiosity in this podcast. I owe an awful lot for finding time to come and speak to me. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm trying to avoid too much public, audible masturbation here while I introduce this particular |
| 1:08.7 | podcast, but feeling very excited about the next few months, I have booked without a doubt some |
| 1:13.9 | of the best minds on the planet to come on this podcast. Mr. Jonathan Hight, author of The Righteous |
| 1:20.0 | Mind is Coming On, Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogle V Advertising, which is one of the |
| 1:26.7 | biggest advertising companies in the world, Tiago Forte of the Praxis blog, plus an awful lot of |
| 1:34.4 | other guests that I can't even talk about yet. And on top of that, myself, Johnny and Yusuf are |
| 1:39.1 | doing our first ever live podcast this week for Community Corpse Christmas Conference. Now, |
| 1:44.1 | Community Corp own Smooth FM, Capital FM in a number of different areas, along with a few other |
| 1:50.0 | broadcasting companies. And for some reason, they are allowing us to sit down in front of all of |
| 1:56.3 | their marketing executives this Thursday and talk about influence the podcasting platform generally |
| 2:03.8 | and doing a live Q&A on stage, in front of an audience at the time side cinema. So, although my |
| 2:10.9 | sphincter is puckering with the nerves, I'm absolutely buzzing to get stuck in. And hopefully, |
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