Leslie Book Puzzles And Mystery

“While we’re all born with the ability to ask questions, our ability to do so is unequally distributed.”(91) A direct quote from Ian Leslie book Curious, Leslie focuses on the ability we have to ask questions and the power that asking question hold in our development of knowledge. As one matures into an adult, the rate of which we ask questions tends to dissipate compared to that of a child.

Leslies chapter Puzzles and Mysteries, focuses on the correlation between age and curiosity. “...we become content to fall back on our stock knowledge and mental habits we built when we were younger, rather than adding to or reserving it.”(32) As we grow older our arrogance gets the best of us, we believe there is nothing more for us to learn. Curiosity

is the balance of knowing to little and knowing too much, the curiosity levels are highest in between the two points. “Even if we were raised to ask questions, we can easily fall out of the habit as adults…”(98) We get lazy as we get older we stop asking questions about things, we become comfortable with the knowledge that we have acquired, we aquire enough to get us to the profession that we desire we only want to know what we need to know.
As adults we lose the curiosity that we were born with as a child we get older learn more and stop asking questions about new things. We