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In this excerpt from The Intimate Animal, Justin Garcia shows why curiosity and self-disclosure — not attraction alone — help build intimacy and sustain it over time.
I'm definitely a Kitsune, but would a Kitsune actually say that?
These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Metacognition — the ability to think about your thinking — can help you learn faster and make better decisions.
Life's "in-between" stages pack unique cognitive benefits — if you know how to tap into them.
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.
Science helps us imagine the vastness of space and time — and our small but meaningful place within it.
Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.
From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.
What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Curiosity is often considered a personality quirk. Neuroscience paints a different picture.
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
When your life’s truth and the reality you live become out of sync, you risk falling into an "anxiety spiral."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Neuroscientist and author Anne-Laure Le Cunff discusses the lasting benefits of uncertainty, curiosity, and the experimental mindset.
Rather than allowing technology to exacerbate stress and disconnection, we can use it to actively support our wellbeing.
An in-depth interview with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, whose new book, Into the Unknown, explores what remains unknown about the Universe.
Research suggests curiosity triggers parts of the brain associated with anticipation, making answers more rewarding once discovered.
Want to get ahead? The best leaders are always humble, proactive and — above all — curious, advises Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota.
A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
Without authenticity, curiosity, and risk-taking we get stuck in the mud — here’s how to make space for resilient progress.
When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”