A book passage that just hit my sweet spot...

In 1994, George Loewenstein, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University, provided the most comprehensive account of situational interest.  It is surprisingly simple.  Curiosity, he says, happens when we feel a gap in our knowledge ("Gap Theory").

Loewenstein argues that gaps cause pain.  When we want to know something but don't, it's like having an itch that we need to scratch.  To take away the pain, we need to fill the knowledge gap.  We sit patiently through bad movies, even though they may be painful to watch, because it's too painful not to know how they end.  

Read in Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath.

I guess this kind of helps accept that pain will never go away  :)

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