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Public Record
Excerpt From article.

What is Interest? An inspection of our most overlooked and undervalued asset.

[…] Interest begins at the recognition of a pattern. The wild infinity of patterns within patterns that exists in each thing, waiting to be discovered, is what allows interest to thrive and multiply. Immediately following a recognized pattern, interest seeks out the relationships between its patterns. […]

The most reliable way to find patterns is through experimentation and reasoning. […] As predictable results are determined, interest drives its host toward finding co-relationships between these discovered patterns, which then leads to new discoveries. This is the life-cycle of interest. […] Interest determines each person’s decisions, individual taste, life goals, and passions, yet the only current application of determining a person’s interest is to generate ad revenue. I believe this to be a huge oversight, and propose an application to interest discovery.

Consider a child’s interest. If we follow the aforementioned life-cycle of interest, a child first discovers her interests through a recognized pattern, and then, upon investigating that pattern, finds a new one, and through this process eventually discovers her fundamental and inherent interests. Her potential for learning any other topic is inherently lower than her potential for learning anything tangentially related to these interests. […]

Terri Fernglove