I know I say this kind of thing a lot but I’m sitting here studying for a final, and this truth is just glaring and throbbing at me:
If you want to dull my curiosity, tell me what the answer is supposed to be.
If you want to make my curiosity vanish completely, do that and then add in a little time pressure.
There is nothing as lethal to my sense of wonder as that alchemical combination of already knowing how things are going to turn out (without knowing why), and feeling the clock tick.
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