When I worked in Dr. Diamond's psychology lab, she was doing Piaget testing on toddlers, testing for cognitive development. Researchers would find a toy that interested the child, and then take it away and hide it, first in plain site, and then they would distract the kid, with increasing levels of difficulty.
Every now and then, there would be a kid who would look directly where the toy had been hidden, and then go for every place but the actual hiding place, with a look of delight.
Those are the ones who skew the curve, the visionaries, the ones who have faith and imagination, interested more in finding what has not already been confirmed, searching the mysteries.
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