4pm Notes #08: Studying joy

pleasure, happiness, curiosity, mortality

1. Curiosity over joy?

   
   “I do not like the idea of happiness—it is too momentary. I would say that I was always busy and interested in something—interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.”
   —Alex Tan

   
   This relates to T.H.White writing, “the best thing for being sad…is to learn something”.

   Is curiosity devoid of emotions, then? Perhaps its signi…