Ian Leslie on Curiosity

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Why are some people incurious? Is curiosity a teachable thing? And why, if all knowledge can be googled, is curiosity now the domain of a small elite? Listen as Ian Leslie, author of Curious, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts why curiosity is a critical virtue, why it's now in dangerous decline, and why, when it comes to what sustains long-term fascination, mysteries beat puzzles every time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is May 2nd, 2022, and my guest is author Ian Leslie.
0:42.7	He was last here in June of 2021, discussing his book, Conflicted.
0:47.1	I like the book so much as well as his writing on Substack, where he has a column called
0:51.1	The Ruffian that I recommend, that I read another book of his called Curious, which is
0:55.5	our subject for today.
0:56.5	Ian, welcome back to econtalk.
0:59.2	Thank you very much, Russ.
1:00.2	It's great to be back.
1:01.2	Now, for a number of years now, econ talk has had a tagline, Conversations for the Curious.
1:06.9	I think of myself as a curious person.
1:09.0	I confess though that until I read your book, I hadn't really thought about it in any kind
1:13.7	of systematic way.
1:14.7	So I want to start with a contrarian take that goes against my own perspective.
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