The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED

Raise your hand if you don't know what this is.

That is a human brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption.

But it gets weirder. Only this man's brain turned to glass, not his other organs, leaving scientists baffled about how ash clouds could create the precise temperature conditions to forge glass from living tissue.

If you didn't know what this was, then you're exactly where you should be.

Because this talk is about the power of not knowing.

Here's why this matters now more than ever.

We live in a culture that's absolutely obsessed with having the right answer immediately.

Social media rewards confident hot takes over curious questions.

Everyone is supposed to be an expert in everything all the time.

Get something remotely wrong -- canceled.

It's exhausting. But I think I found another way.

When I started my channel, Today I Learned, in two years over two million people followed.

Not for expert opinions or hot takes, but for something simpler: shared curiosity.

Which is ironic because I used to be the complete opposite.