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798 If you find yourself constantly researching topics that have zero practical application to your life and falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes at 2am, psychology says you share these 7 cognitive traits of genuinely curious minds

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Lachlan Brown @ Silicon Canals · 03/19/2026 12:42 EDT

If you find yourself constantly researching topics that have zero practical application to your life and falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes at 2am, psychology says you share these 7 cognitive traits of genuinely curious minds

It is 2am. You went to bed at 11. But somewhere between closing your eyes and falling asleep, you wondered how deep the Mariana Trench actually is, which led to how pressure works at depth, which led to the history of deep-sea exploration, which led to the biography of a Swiss physicist you had never ... Read more

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