Ask HN: What does it means to be more curious?
But what does that actually means ? Curiosity is tied to an emotion. I don't have a problem learning things I'm genuinely interested in, because I won't struggle to dig in those things, I won't stop for as long as I feel that my understanding is wrong/incomplete, and once my curiosity is satisfied, I'll feel something satisfying which'll make it easy for my brain to remember what I've learned.
It's a process deeply tied with our emotions, which is I don't understand why people usually recommend to just "Ask (yourself) more questions" about a thing, or to "Try to be interested" into something, "Train yourself to be more curious" or other similar advices.
I can ask myself 1000 questions about fashion in the middle ages, but I'd likely forget 99% of what I've learned, because ultimately, I couldn't care less about this topic, and faking an interest in that wouldn't make me feel things.
There also doesn't seem to be a correlation between how curious someone think they are, and how curious they actually are.
So those of HN who genuinely "hacked" their curiosity, how did you do it ? How to be curious about the things I wish I was interested in ?