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What inspires you to learn?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

This exact prompt is one of Vox's nine recurring questions about intellectual habits.

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Founder and executive chairperson of Biocon
Science is about curiosity-driven learning, and unless you are curious, you will never find science exciting.
Recorded TNN, Sunday Times, The Times of India, 5 September 2021 source ↗
Alice Sheppard Dancer, Choreographer
I’m reading an odd collection of books that should not go together, but of course they do. Georgina Kleege: What Blindness Brings To Art; Fred Moten: Black and Blur; Theri Pickens: Black Madness :: Mad Blackness.
Recorded Nicole Smith, VSA International Network, 4 September 2019 source ↗
David Vélez Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
I wish I knew more about Clojure, which is the programming language we use most at Nubank. If I did, I could better understand some of the more complex problems we're trying to solve, and I think I could ask better questions when we're setting priorities. I'd like to be able to communicate at that level with the technical side of our team, and I think they would appreciate it, too.
Recorded questionnaire, Sequoia Capital, 15 August 2018 source ↗

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