What is thirst for knowledge? How to get it!

Curiosity is the innate spiritual demand of human beings-cognitive demand. Curiosity, as an inherent spiritual demand, has become an important psychological factor that constitutes learning motivation. From this perspective, curiosity helps to promote students' interest in the learning process itself, thus improving the learning effect.

An Inner Spiritual Need of Man ── Cognitive Need. When people face problems or tasks in life, study and work and feel that they lack corresponding knowledge, they will have a cognitive tendency to explore new knowledge or expand and deepen existing knowledge; This situation is repeated many times, and the cognitive tendency gradually turns into a strong cognitive desire in the individual's heart, that is, curiosity. People with a strong thirst for knowledge consciously and actively pursue knowledge and enthusiastically explore knowledge to meet their spiritual needs. It can be seen that curiosity and thirst for knowledge belong to the tendency to explore things, but they are not the same. General curiosity is manifested in people's short-term exploration behavior of seeking to know things; Curiosity is a relatively stable cognitive desire and need, which is manifested in people's unremitting pursuit of knowledge.