Curiosity Tendency

CORE DEFINITION

One of the twenty-five psychological tendencies identified by Charlie Munger in The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, and one of the few that works in the thinker's favour. The core claim is that humans are wired to take pleasure in explanation itself, so information gathering continues without any external reward. The key qualification is that this appetite is undirected: it strengthens whatever it is pointed at, so it amplifies useful learning only when coupled with a question worth asking. Munger credited his own habit of continuous reading across many disciplines with much of his later advantage.