How Curiosity Supercharges Your Memory and Cognitive FunctionHow Curiosity Supercharges Your Memory and Cognitive Function
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How Curiosity Supercharges Your Memory and Cognitive Function

Approaching life with open questions may be the key to improved learning and healthy aging.
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This is part 16 in Virtue Medicine

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Leonardo da Vinci’s to-do lists were like no one else’s.

His journals reveal an impressive range of ideas, from sketches of hearts and how blood circulates to questions about a woodpecker’s tongue. Nothing was beneath his attention. For da Vinci, curiosity did not wait for permission. It is what made him “the most relentlessly curious man in history,” as described by art historian Kenneth Clark.