What Joe Posnanski thinks about curiosity
American sportswriter, formerly a columnist at the Kansas City Star, Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports. Author of The Baseball 100 and Why We Love Baseball. Writes JoeBlogs, a newsletter mostly about baseball, with essays on other sports.
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Their wordsI hate them for many reasons, but mostly because they make us dumber. They flatten thought into emotion. They turn curiosity into bland certainty. They take things that are worth thinking about, worth talking about, worth arguing about, and reduce them to two screaming sides and zero listening.
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