Well, the more you fuck around, the more you find out. All the best hackers are naturally curious. But aside from curiosity, there is also a more subtle thing called 'noticing'. You need to develop the art of noticing anomalies, and stop recognizing patterns. Spot the things that 'stand out'.
Fool around with things.
What’s that do? How’s that work?
When we get older, and accustomed to things, we start to take them for granted.
When we’re told what something is and what it does or learn about them in a formal purposeful way we stop wondering about them, accepting what we know as some sort of “established dogma.”
This “familiarity” is often a self deception. We miss things. Things go unnoticed…
This is why newcomers/outsiders often make great discoveries. They don’t have their blinders fixed by routine or expectations.
> Curiosity is tied to an emotion.
I’m not sure I agree. Emotions are a form of personal confusion. Curiosity is intellectual. More tied to unemotional ignorance and lack of rigidity towards formal expectations.