Interest "selfless" impractical. For example, a student is much more interesting to know how many rhino horns, than many of the roots of the quadratic equation - even if his nose test. An adult is sometimes interesting to know on how much money a neighbor bought a car than a name and patronymic of the same neighbor. Most, though not all the interesting things are useless or even harmful. "Interesting" literature is almost always a few exceptions, bad, and "good" - uninteresting. This property interest is used in all sorts of systems, "killing time": from crossword puzzles to computer games.

Interest leads people to engage in hours of completely empty thing: pick a letter or try to open any virtual bar, behind which is a new door with a new bolt - and so is almost endless. Thousands and thousands of hours of precious and unique human life wasted, literally killed in the futile search of useless results. But, on the other hand, the interest - is the main system by which a person extends his experience, through which mankind has increased its reach, it is the only seed from which grows intelligence - a child who is not much interested to grow dull.

Search and test interest

What is interest? interest - this is not a harmless thing, this "sucker", an idea which is firmly attached to the man. Interest can inflict harm and benefit. Now we are interested in the harmful properties of interest. There are two forms of interest: the test (I want to try) and exploratory (want to know). When a teenager first try drugs, it is interesting to try. When the old woman did not sleep all night, listening as the neighbors say the thin wall - it is interesting to find out. Test and search interest so different from each other, even do not understand why in all the languages they are called by the same word. Solve puzzles, search for answers to useless questions or pry into his business not forces us to search interest - that his "badness" is almost exhausted.

SEARCH INTEREST - This is a feeling that a person experiences, approaching the idea. The idea did not infect it, but it attracts, for seeking to myself, makes us look. We do not know anything like this in the physical or mental illness. The idea of changing the human psyche, not only infect it, but just approaching. We feel the closeness of the response (r e. new ideas) as easily and clearly, like a cat feels the proximity of the glass with milk. Cat smells, we - the search interest. Any more or less intelligent person knows a feeling of intimacy solutions. Knows and a vague feeling that "there is something wrong" - the feeling that the wall is a door, yet invisible, but able to open and lead a fascinating obscurity. This sense of pleasure, to experience it, mankind has invented riddles, mysteries and brain-ring.

Searching interest begins with the problem of ending solution - that is, the emergence of a new idea. The trial has no relation to the problems: it makes the check or test a new idea. TEST OF INTEREST - a human condition are already infected with IDEA. Test try makes interesting new idea at all options and situations. But these tests are not always harmless. They may be unethical, dangerous, anti-social or criminal. Here is an example of unethical behavior.

The test of interest is much more dangerous search - it makes no look, and act - and these actions are often quite illogical, strange, and useless. Sometimes they are criminal or destructive. We understand the new (or almost forgotten old) idea and it makes us feel it. She must grow into, to fit into our experience and understanding to one that is not enough. Understand - not to know. Need test action. Actions are ethically undefined, ie, the new idea can push both the good and for ill.