Curiosity

'Wait, what' is at the root of all understanding. 'I wonder' is at the heart of all curiosity. 'Couldn't we at least' is the beginning of all progress. 'How can I help' is at the base of all good relationships. And 'what really matters' gets you to the heart of life.

The only answer to more hate is more humanity. We gotta replace fear with curiosity.

The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

If you can get curious about what scares or infuriates you, especially if it's part of yourself, you can get way less scared.

Hang your diploma on the wall and do some traveling. It is time to see the world.

Don't go to college. It's super expensive and super hard. Seriously, don't waste your time and money unless you want to be a doctor, then I totally get it. No one's going to let you take out their spleen unless you have a degree. The rest of you, go read some books.

Celebrate idleness. Yes, idleness! Our greatest insights and discoveries have come not when we are doubling down staring at a computer screen, but when we sit back, rub our eyes, go for a walk, read a book or give our children a bath. Isaac Newton did not discover gravity in a laboratory. He was sitting under a tree.

A persistent curiosity can help us reach ambitious goals, even with great roadblocks in the way.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

Get into something and see where it takes you. If you really seem to like it, get good at it.

The right reason to go to college is so you can find new ways to awe yourself by reflecting on how fascinating the world we live in is. We are actually on a giant rock hurling through space. It's a crazy interesting world we are living in.

Trees, as it turns out, grow out of the air, not out of the ground! That is a beautiful thing to contemplate. And getting the special glasses that allow me to look at the world this way, well for me, that is a really good reason that I went to college.