TOW#604 — Curiosity!
Do you know who are the most curious people on planet Earth?!
Children (up to 5–6 years old), plus Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Mozart, Frida Kahlo, Benjamin Franklin, Christopher Columbus, Michelangelo… the list goes on. I think you get where this tip is going…
Now, I said children until the age of 5 or 6, because after that they start school, begin acting like adults, accept ‘grown up’ rules, the system and the environment begins to put pressure on them, we put them in a ‘box’, they increasingly hear the words “NO/DON’T/NOT LIKE THAT/ENOUGH OF YOUR QUESTIONS…”, and slowly their curiosity is suppressed or destroyed.
You know the joke about Columbus, right, that if he’d been married he’d never have discovered America. He said that his wife would have surely nagged him a lot: “where are you going now”, “do they have to send you”, “is there nobody else”, “who’s that woman on the ship”, “who’s going with you”, “when are you coming back”…
We all talk about happiness, pleasure, harmony, a beautiful life, the meaning of life, new experiences, getting out of our comfort zone, changes, but no one realises that only one thing stands in the way of all of that — ‘CURIOSITY’. Curiosity means a state of active interest or a sincere desire to know more about a certain thing/situation/area/concept. Curiosity allows you to accept new unknown circumstances and events and to experience life from a different perspective.
Here are some aspects of our lives that are affected by curiosity:
• We need curiosity to survive. The basic mission of our brain. By constantly learning and discovering new things, we learn about life, about people, relationships, things that are important to us, and thus we can more easily deal with the challenges of existence;
• We need curiosity to exercise our brains and strengthen intelligence. The brain, like all other muscles, needs exercise. If we don’t constantly create new synaptic relations and connections in the mind, it will be guided by and will follow predefined and well-established pathways, so there’ll be no development. It will get blunt. Research shows that when our mind is open to new experiences, the brain is kept active and awake;
• We need curiosity so that we can learn better. Science says that those who are curious about a topic learn much faster and more effectively. It makes sense. When we’re into a topic, it’s much easier to absorb it;
• We need curiosity to be happier. It’s normal to be unhappy if we’re bewitched by the daily routine of life and the tedious concept of ‘home-work, work-home’. The only thing that can distract us from this is if we’re curious about new experiences in life;
• We need curiosity in order to achieve greater success. No successful person on Earth could have achieved their success if they hadn’t been curious. Einstein said: “I don’t have any special talent. I’m just passionately curious.”;
• We need curiosity so we can have better relations. Naturally, curiosity leads to new acquaintances, new experiences with people, interest in others and a more fun social life that affects you and others around you.
With curiosity, we can get to MARS. It’s not for nothing that NASA named its rover that explored Mars ‘Curiosity’. Be curious, get out of the ‘dead end street’, leave your comfort zone, experience new things and enjoy life.
Wishing you success with the changes to come,
Petar Lazarov
Member of the Team
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