# Elizabeth Weingarten - In Uncertain Times, Get Curious (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/51347621) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Elizabeth Weingarten]] **Full Title**:: In Uncertain Times, Get Curious **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [behavioralscientist.org](https://behavioralscientist.org/in-uncertain-times-get-curious/?mc_eid=e5c88ff33f) **Host**:: [[behavioralscientist.org]] **Highlighted**:: [[2025-05-12]] **Created**:: [[2025-05-14]] ## Highlights - Curiosity works, [they write](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547147/curious-minds/), by “linking ideas, facts, perceptions, sensations and data points together.” It is complex, mutating, unpredictable, and transformational. It is, fundamentally, an act of connection, an act of creating relationships between ideas and people. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jv26dnvh78wf2gfjsg9atd8h)) ^888677063 - One takeaway from the research is that the more you can anchor yourself in questions, letting them fuel your curiosity and deepen your understanding of who you are and what you want, the less anxious you’ll be. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jv26gqx6w3xry2anj8wv3z5m)) ^888677184 - Asking questions opens up different possibilities. If someone can be curious, they are less likely to narrow in on one idea that could be generating that feeling of stuckness, or apprehension about the future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jv26hkacj4pc9x5nswcz7yt7)) ^888677244