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I. INQUIRE Build new knowledge by inquiring, thinking critically, identifying problems, and developing strategies for solving problems.

Learners display curiosity and initiative by:
1. Formulating questions about a personal interest or a curricular topic.
2. Recalling prior and background knowledge as context for new meaning

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Here’s how nurturing your child’s curiosity helps them become a better learner.

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In recent years, researchers have become curious about curiosity. Why are people curious? What are the benefits of a curious mind?

Their findings show that curiosity makes learning easier and boosts problem-solving ability.

In a time of uncertainty about the future, curiosity is a critical skill for finding a way forward.

Curiouser and curiouser

Researchers largely understand human curiosity as being linked to learning and information seeking.

In terms of our evolution, it makes sense for humans to be curious about the world around them.

Professor Celeste Kidd studies curiosity and learning at the University of California, Berkeley where she runs the Kidd Lab.

"Curiosity is the driving force behind everything we know," she says.

But she says curiosity isn't limited to people.

"It's all species who learn, at a minimum," Celeste says, "and a case can be made for even."

So even the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is curious, it seems.

Curiosity and learning

Emerging research on curiosity suggests curiosity is linked to problem solving and creativity.

In the words of brilliant physicist Albert Einstein, "I have no special talent - I am only passionately curious."

Curiosity helps us learn better, the research suggests. Specifically, we're better at learning things we're curious about.

It also improves our memory. For example, you might remember the logo on the T-shirt of the person who taught you something you were interested in.

Curious about an uncertain future

Celeste's research found we're most curious when we feel uncertain about something.

"Uncertainty indicates that there's valuable knowledge available," she says.

"By contrast, certainty indicates you know everything there is to know so there's no point in continuing to be curious because there's nothing further to be gleaned."

This is sensible, she says, because it guides us towards what is most useful for us to learn.

In these rather uncertain times, curiosity can help us to focus on the most pressing issue. This could explain the growing interest in sustainability, the circular economy and ethical data use.

What's next?

Celeste and her team are now curious about a growing global problem: the psychology of fake news.

"We are especially interested lately in why people sometimes believe things that aren't true and why these unjustified beliefs can be so stubborn," she says.

"We are also working on how humans form beliefs online."

This extends to all beliefs, not just those based on false information.

Celeste and her team are investigating the role algorithms and internet-enabled confirmation bias play in how we form beliefs online.

Hopefully, their curiosity can provide some solutions to this increasingly divisive problem, and it wouldn't hurt if we were all a bit more curious about what we learn online.

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Why are we curious? Curious minds explained - People News | Particle

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In recent years, researchers have become curious about curiosity. Why are people curious? What are the benefits of a curious mind? Their findings show that curiosity makes learning easier and boosts problem-solving ability. In a time of uncertainty about the future, curiosity is a critical skill for finding a way forward.

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How can you cultivate more curiosity in your life both inside and outside of school?

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1. DEMYSTIFYING RESEARCH METHODS

2. FIVE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT RESEARCH

1. MISCONCEPTION #1: RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED IN A LABORATORY

2. MISCONCEPTION #2: RESEARCH IS FOR EGGHEADS

3. MISCONCEPTION #3: RESEARCH HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH EVERYDAY LIFE
MISCONCEPTION #4: RESEARCHERS ACROSS DISCIPLINES AGREE ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE RESEARCH

4. MISCONCEPTION #5: RESEARCHERS THINK, RESEARCH, AND THEN WRITE

5. YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY SOME OF THE FOLLOWING:

6. LICENSES AND ATTRIBUTIONS

DEMYSTIFYING RESEARCH METHODS

If you are like most people, you have some definite ideas about what research is. You may envision a pale figure in a white lab coat bent over a microscope or a beaker of bubbling liquid. Perhaps you imagine this isolated and humorless figure engaged in tedious procedures, carefully recorded on graph paper or reduced to inscrutable formulas scrawled in notebooks. Given a few moments, you might expand this vision of research to include a khaki-clad archaeologist digging for relics in the desert or a tweed-jacketed professor studying musty manuscripts in a dusty corner of the library.

These visions of imaginary researchers probably seem disconnected from your personal experience with research. Your first encounter with the term "research" may have been in the form of an English class assignment that required you to write a paper of a specified number of words in which you referenced a minimum number of sources using correct bibliographic citations. You may have spent a few uncomfortable hours in the library searching for material that had some bearing on the topic of your paper, then tried to collect bits and pieces from these sources into a more-or-less coherent whole without committing an obvious act of plagiarism. As you struggled with the apparently contradictory requirements to base your paper on the work of others but say something new, you probably wondered what this assignment had to do with "research."

FIVE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT RESEARCH

None of these visions accurately represent the research process. Most people have a distorted picture of what researchers do. They tend to view research as tedious, repetitious, dull, and irrelevant to most of our immediate practical concerns. In fact, research should be the opposite. In order to envision research as interesting, exciting, and fun, you may need to dispel some common misconceptions about where research is done, who does it, and what it entails.

Misconception #1: Research is conducted in a laboratory.

Misconception #2: Research is for eggheads.

Misconception #3: Research has little to do with everyday life.

Misconception #4: Researchers across disciplines agree about what constitutes effective research.

Misconception #5: Researchers think, research, and then write.

MISCONCEPTION #1: RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED IN A LABORATORY

Whether we realize it or not, most of us have acquired our understanding of research from the images presented by popular culture. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, for example, has provided one of the most dramatic and enduring representations of laboratory research. Contemporary films like Outbreak suggest an updated version of the researcher, still white-coated but now isolated from normal social contact by the need for extraordinary anti-contamination precautions. Perhaps because it is unfamiliar and, therefore, potentially dangerous, the laboratory offers a more dramatic setting for fictional accounts than other, more accessible research environments.

Of course, some kinds of research require the controlled environments that laboratories provide. The medical research that developed the antibiotics and pain relievers your doctor prescribed that last time you had the flu was conducted in a laboratory. And most of the commercially produced consumer products you use every day-from paint to cereal to hand lotion-undergo testing and refining in some sort of laboratory. But laboratory research is only one particular kind of research.

In reality, research is conducted everywhere. You may have noticed an amiable young person with a clipboard stopping shoppers in the local mall to ask questions about their buying preferences. That person was conducting research. The best-selling account of Lewis and Clark's explorations is the result of research, as is the Thursday night lineup of your favorite TV shows, the design of your computer desk, the pattern of the traffic flow through your neighborhood, and the location of the nearest restaurant. None of the research that produced these results was conducted in a laboratory.

If, for example, you are interested in investigating how people behave in natural situations and under normal conditions, you cannot expect to gather information in a laboratory. In other words, the questions researchers are trying to answer and the methods they select for answering these questions will determine where the research is conducted. Research is carried out wherever researchers must go to collect the information they need.

MISCONCEPTION #2: RESEARCH IS FOR EGGHEADS

Just as images from popular culture have influenced our ideas about where research is conducted, pop culture has also created some persistent stereotypes of researchers. In addition to the rather demonic Dr. Frankenstein, you may also think of friendlier, if slightly addled eggheads like the professor on Gilligan's Island, the Jerry Lewis or Eddie Murphy version of The Nutty Professor, or the laughable Disney character, Professor Ludwig von Drake. These images all reinforce the notion of researchers as absent-minded eccentrics, engrossed in highly technical, specialized projects that most of us cannot understand.

However, just as research can be carried out almost anywhere, anyone can be a researcher. Asking questions about your friend's new romance, gathering evidence of who she was seen with, making deductions based on her new style of dress, and spreading the word about your conclusions is a form of research. These activities don't sound like research to most people because they have not been expressed in academic language. But what if the activities were organized into a research project titled "The Psychosocial Determinants of Gender Relations in Postmodern Dating Culture: A Psychoanalytic Approach"? The point, of course, is not to suggest that gossip qualifies as legitimate research but rather that everyone employs the investigative and exploitative elements of research to make sense of their lives. Research is not just for "eggheads."

MISCONCEPTION #3: RESEARCH HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH EVERYDAY LIFE

While the first two misconceptions concern where research is done and who does it, the third misconception misrepresents the subject matter of research. Because some research focuses on very narrow questions and relies on highly technical knowledge, people often assume that all research must be hard to understand and unrelated to everyday concerns.

However, research need not be difficult to understand, and research is an activity that is defined by its method, not by its subject. In other words, it is true that some significant research is difficult for non-specialists to understand. Yet all research is valuable to the extent that it affects everyday life.

Research takes many forms, but it always entails a search, conducted carefully and diligently, aimed at the discovery and interpretation of new knowledge. Thus, how you go about gathering information, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and sharing results determine whether your activities qualify as research. Sometimes these activities will be informal, spontaneous, and intuitive, as when you infer that your friend has a new romance or when you read reviews in a computer magazine before purchasing a new software. In school and in the workplace, where results are disseminated and evaluated by others, research is likely to be more formal. Regardless of its final form, however, whenever you systematically gather information for the purpose of generating new knowledge, you are conducting research.

MISCONCEPTION #4: RESEARCHERS ACROSS DISCIPLINES AGREE ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE RESEARCH

Academic disciplines-for example, mathematics, psychology, physics, engineering, or business-have different ways of conducting and evaluating research. An anthropologist's account of kinship patterns in a tribe of Native Americans bears almost no resemblance to a cognitive psychologist's investigation of sensory responses to light stimuli. Even within a particular academic discipline, researchers may disagree over what makes good research.

Not only do people disagree about appropriate methods of research, but their ideas may change over time. Conceptions about knowledge, available technologies, and research practices influence each other and change constantly. For example, capturing gorillas and studying them in cages might have been considered good research in the 1920s. The work of later researchers like Dian Fossey, however, demonstrated how animals might be better understood in their natural environment. Today, research based on observations of wild animals in captivity would gain little support or interest.

Because no one way of doing research is equally acceptable to all researchers in all academic disciplines, researchers must select the methodology that will be most persuasive to their readers.

MISCONCEPTION #5: RESEARCHERS THINK, RESEARCH, AND THEN WRITE

When you first begin a research project, you are wise to integrate writing activities with research activities. Unfortunately, many people wrongly separate the research process from the writing process. They naively assume they should first think about a topic, identify a research question, research it, and then-after all of the excitement is drained from the project-write it up. Rather than using the generative power of writing (that is, our ability to generate new ideas by writing) to help define and energize a research project, some people delay writing until after they have completed the research. Waiting to write about a research project until you're done researching may waste your time and can result in dull, listless prose.

You can save time and ensure that your research is focused by writing summaries of others' research, by writing drafts of your research goals, and by writing about the results you hope to find before you find them. In the process, you will eliminate vague or contradictory ideas you may have about your project.

Incorporating writing into your research activities helps you identify your rhetorical situation and define your readers' priorities. Writing about your project in its early stages gives you time to develop ways of describing your research that are comprehensible and interesting to your audience. As you redraft and revise, your writing-and your thinking-will become clearer, more precise, and thus more credible.

We can all take a lesson in the importance of making your research your own from Gary Starkweather, who built a laser printer that made billions of dollars for Xerox and helped change the way business is done all over the world. The experience taught him several things:

It's better to try and fail than to decide something that can't be done and not try at all. Research is a place where failure should be, if not encouraged, at least viewed as a sign that something's happening. Uncertainty is bad for manufacturing but essential for research.

Believe in your own ideas and don't trim your sails just to be popular with your colleagues. Howard Aiken, the inventor of the first digital computer, said: "If it's truly a good idea, you'll have to jam it down their throats."

Be open to suggestions. Often someone who hasn't stared at a problem until they went cross-eyed has the fresh view that can solve it. The best way to a breakthrough is constant small improvements - those waiting for the big break are just lazy; they're waiting to be teleported to the top of the hill instead of walking.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY SOME OF THE FOLLOWING:

In a couple of paragraphs describe a research project or a paper you have written in the past that you felt was interesting, fun, or successful. Try to identify what made the project appealing. Why did it spark your interest? Did you develop the idea yourself, did someone help you, or was it assigned? How did your readers respond to your work? Why do you think they acted that way? Do you feel it might be worthwhile to build on the work you completed earlier by digging deeper into the subject? In what ways did your attitude influence the way you conducted and wrote your research? How can you take advantage of your experience in order to enjoy future projects? What additional misconceptions about research can you identify?

To develop a better understanding of the research process, maintain a journal of your activities and thoughts while you conduct a research project.

LICENSES AND ATTRIBUTIONS

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5.2: What Are Some Misconceptions About Research?

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DEMYSTIFYING RESEARCH METHODS FIVE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT RESEARCH MISCONCEPTION #1: RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED IN A LABORATORY MISCONCEPTION #2: RESEARCH IS FOR EGGHEADS MISCONCEPTION #3: RESEARCH HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH EVERYDAY LIFE MISCONCEPTION #4: RESEARCHERS ACROSS DISCIPLINES AGREE ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE RESEARCH MISCONCEPTION #5: RESEARCHERS THINK, RESEARCH, AND THEN WRITE YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY SOME OF THE FOLLOWING: LICENSES AND ATTRIBUTIONS If you are like most people, you have some definite ideas about what research is.

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In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.

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Children have an incredibly inquisitive mind. "Why?" they keep asking. They explore new things for no other reason except that they just want to know. Researchers tried to figure out how often kids ask questions. Turns out, a lot: on average, children ask 107 questions per hour!

But it seems that as adults we tend to fall into fixed and convenient cognitive patterns. "Schools do not always, or even often, foster curiosity," says Susan Engel, author and senior lecturer in psychology.

Her research shows that what she calls "episodes of curiosity" - such as asking direct questions, manipulating objects, or intent and directed gazing - occurred 2.36 times in a two hour stretch in kindergarten, and only 0.48 times in a fifth grade classroom.

So, what's going on, and is it ever too late to rehabilitate your curiosity?

Creativity gets unlearned

When NASA was looking at hiring highly creative people, they hired Dr. George Land to devise a test that would accurately measure creative potential. Dr. Land collaborated with another researcher, Dr. Beth Jarman, to create a test which measured divergent thinking, or the ability to look at a particular problem and devise multiple solutions.

The test worked well and is still a cornerstone of research around curiosity. But Dr. George Land, being curious (see what I'm doing), wanted to go further and understand the underlying mechanics of curiosity.

Where does it come from? How does it evolve through our lives?

To answer these questions, he led a large-scale observation study of 1,600 children. He got the kids to take the test at age 5, 10, and 15. The first time they took the test, 98% scored the highest possible score on the creativity test. The second time they took it, five years later, only 30% of the very same children scored well on the test. Even more depressing, the third time they took it - by now in high school - it was only 12% of kids that did well.

What about adults? Well, it's not getting any better. Based on a sample of 280,000 people, less than 2% of all adults are defined as creative based on their answer to this standardised test.

Some evidence suggests that this dramatic decrease in curiosity could be caused by our increase in knowledge as we grow up.

Once we feel like there's no gap between what we know and what we want to know, we just stop being and acting curious. But why should we care?

3 surprising benefits of curiosity

Based on the results above, it seems like most adults go about their lives without any effort to foster their curiosity. You might think, maybe that's not such a bad thing after all. But curiosity has magical properties which have been extensively studied by scientists.

Curiosity keeps you young: research shows that keeping a sense of wonder throughout life and as well as a novelty-seeking behaviour helps people to stay young. A study which followed aging individuals while tracking their curiosity levels found that those that showed high levels of curiosity were more likely to be alive five years later.

Curiosity helps you learn: there is strong evidence that curiosity helps you better remember new information. The more curious you are about a topic, the more likely you are to remember it.

Curiosity fosters better relationships: being genuinely interested in other people helps build more robust relationships, research shows. This means a greater feeling of intimacy and creating the foundation for meaningful relationships.

Convinced you should do more to cultivate your curiosity? The good thing is that low levels of curiosity doesn't mean your curiosity is just gone. In most adults, it's mostly suppressed. In fact, every time you go to bed to sleep and you start dreaming, you let your curiosity run wild.

How to cultivate your curiosity

There are a few simple activities that will help you foster your curiosity and by extension increase your creativity. Try a few and see which ones feel most effective for you personally.

1. Ask questions: randomly ask yourself questions like why? and how? when reading something or chatting with friends. You can even write down some of these questions to take the time to find the answers later.

2. Read outside of your field: pick a type of book you would never naturally buy in a bookstore. Is it classic poetry? Non-fiction? A cookbook? Something about geology? Read it just for the sake of reading it, even if it doesn't directly contribute to your work.

3. Be inquisitive with people: choose someone in your entourage that you haven't seen in a while, and invite them for coffee. Make it your goal to learn as much as possible about their interests. Take that approach any time you meet a new person.

4. Practice saying less: this is linked to the previous one. Try to talk less and to listen more.

5. Immerse yourself in a topic: select a topic that you find interesting, and push the limits of your curiosity by going deep. This means reading lots of articles, books, and research papers, watching TED talks, listening to podcasts.

6. Write: take it to the next level by writing about this topic. This is exactly what I'm doing here. By committing to write on this blog, I get to explore new topics and cultivate my curiosity.

7. Carry a notebook: it will make it easier to remember topics you're curious about and want to either research or write about later.

8. Learn about yourself: curiosity doesn't need to only be outward. Explore your feelings, ask yourself about your goals and behaviours, or even research your past and family history.

9. Slow down: productivity can be the enemy of creativity. Take the time to let your mind wander and let questions pop into your head.

10. Hang out with a child: playing and talking with a child is probably one of the best reminders of our potential for curiosity.

We were all born curious. As adults, it's our choice to be curious or not. It does take some conscious effort, but it's worth investing in our curiosity so we can make the most of the extended liminal space that is life.

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The science of curiosity: why we keep asking "why"

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Children have an incredibly inquisitive mind. "Why?" they keep asking. But it seems that as adults we tend to fall into fixed and convenient cognitive patterns.

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Albert Einstein

Curiosity is an important trait of a genius. I don't think you can find an intellectual giant who is not a curious person. Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, they are all curious characters. Richard Feynman was especially known for his adventures which came from his curiosity.

But why is curiosity so important? Here are four reasons:

1. It makes your mind active instead of passive
Curious people always ask questions and search for answers in their minds. Their minds are always active. Since the mind is like a muscle which becomes stronger through continual exercise, the mental exercise caused by curiosity makes your mind stronger and stronger.

2. It makes your mind observant of new ideas
When you are curious about something, your mind expects and anticipates new ideas related to it. When the ideas come they will soon be recognized. Without curiosity, the ideas may pass right in front of you and yet you miss them because your mind is not prepared to recognize them. Just think, how many great ideas may have lost due to lack of curiosity?

3. It opens up new worlds and possibilities
By being curious you will be able to see new worlds and possibilities which are normally not visible. They are hidden behind the surface of normal life, and it takes a curious mind to look beneath the surface and discover these new worlds and possibilities.

4. It brings excitement into your life
The life of curious people is far from boring. It's neither dull nor routine. There are always new things that attract their attention, there are always new 'toys' to play with. Instead of being bored, curious people have an adventurous life.

Now, knowing the importance of curiosity, here are some tips to develop it:
1. Keep an open mind
This is essential if you are to have a curious mind. Be open to learn, unlearn, and relearn. Some things you know and believe might be wrong, and you should be prepared to accept this possibility and change your mind.
2. Don't take things as granted
If you just accept the world as it is without trying to dig deeper, you will certainly lose the 'holy curiosity'. Never take things as granted. Try to dig deeper beneath the surface of what is around you.
3. Ask questions relentlessly
A sure way to dig deeper beneath the surface is asking questions: What is that? Why is it made that way? When was it made? Who invented it? Where does it come from? How does it work? What, why, when, who, where, and how are the best friends of curious people.
4. Don't label something as boring
Whenever you label something as boring, you close one more door of possibilities. Curious people are unlikely to call something as boring. Instead, they always see it as a door to an exciting new world. Even if they don't yet have time to explore it, they will leave the door open to be visited another time.
5. See learning as something fun
If you see learning as a burden, there's no way you will want to dig deeper into anything. That will just make the burden heavier. But if you think of learning as something fun, you will naturally want to dig deeper. So look at life through the glasses of fun and excitement and enjoy the learning process..
6. Read diverse kinds of reading
Don't spend too much time on just one world; take a look at another worlds. It will introduce you to the possibilities and excitement of the other worlds which may spark your interest to explore them further. One easy way to do this is through reading diverse kinds of reading. Try to pick a book or magazine on a new subject and let it feed your mind with the excitement of a new world.

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4 Reasons Why Curiosity is Important and How to Develop It

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Albert Einstein Curiosity is an important trait of a genius. I don't think you can find an intellectual giant who is not a curious person. Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, they are all curious characters. Richard Feynman was especially known for his adventures which came from his curiosity.

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Curious people are powerful people. Paraphrasing Albert Einstein: you need passion and curiosity, not talent, to stand out. Powerful people are endowed with attentiveness and inner strength. What sets these people apart from the rest is they're always interested in the small details and focused on the big challenges.

Stephen Hawking defined curiosity as "the will to never give up". It's about looking up at the stars and not down at your feet. Trying to make sense of what you see and wonder what makes the universe exist. Similarly, Thomas Hobbes described this competence as "mental lust" and Victor Hugo as a "form of courage".

There are multiple explanations about what curiosity is. However, only one of them contains its true essence and reminds you that it's the foundation of learning and the advancement of human beings. Its effect, its primary impulse in children is essential to promote their psychological development and their daily spark. Curiosity is the engine that allows you to maintain your enthusiasm for knowledge.

Curious people are different

What's so special about curious people? Well, to begin, their most defining characteristic is their ability to ask questions nobody's asking. For example, Isaac Newton was a physicist, astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, and even an alchemist. There were no limits to his passion for knowledge and curiosity. Thus, he came up with the laws of motion and the concept of gravity after his famous eureka moment - when an apple fell from a tree and hit him.

Charles Darwin is another well-known example of boundless curiosity. One of his most common habits was to write letters to scholars around the world. The letters contained endless questions about plants, birds, insects, human behaviors, expressions, and emotions. Why did he send them? Because he just had to know!

These two examples are what scientists define as a "thirst for knowledge". This is a highly developed type of motivation in some people and is well-defined by the following processes.

Curious people thrive on knowledge and discovery

Curiosity is a type of motivation based on rewards, as understood within the psychology of learning. It's the sensation of discovering something unexpected, of finding the answer to a question, and the experience of solving a riddle. Thus, it's the challenge or a long-held doubt what moves a curious person.

This is the same conclusion that a recent study conducted at the University of California, published in the journal Cell, found. In it, Dr. Matthias Gruber and his colleagues show that the brains of highly curious people work differently. Their dopaminergic system has a higher intensity and connection.

It shows how the brain of a curious person of any age experiences satisfaction with the mere process of learning. It's because it thrives in the exciting search process in which obstacles appear but are overcome. The reward centers and the hippocampus are the two most active areas in these people.

Without curiosity, humans lose their vital impulse

Donald W. Winnicott had something to say on this subject in the 50s and 60s. This man was a renowned pediatrician who later became a notable psychoanalyst. According to him, when a human being loses their curiosity, then their vital impulses such as creativity, spontaneity, and happiness also fade away.

Why does it happen? Well, according to Winnicott's experience, some people create a false identity. Of course, they become frustrated beings chained to their routine, unsolved problems, and yet-to-heal traumas. In essence, their apathy separates them from the luminous and authentic self they're hiding.

An unsatisfying life dims anyone's potential and their motivation fades along with their mood and their curiosity.

Reconnect with your curiosity

Everyone is creative and holds great possible discoveries within themselves. However, your daily routine often weakens your spirit as per your culture's design. This is because people who can challenge the status quo and the conventional and what most take for granted, are quite dangerous.

However, it's all better when you can open your senses and experience it all. You must figure out what you like and pursue it. What arouses your passion and interests? Wouldn't it be great to see the world through your inner child's lenses and feel excited once again about your discoveries?

For instance, you can currently find answers to any doubt or question you might have in online search engines. However, the answers you get through your own exploration are more valuable. You must feed your curiosity through research, traveling, meeting new people, and using critical and divergent thinking. Finally, you must wake up and recover your motivation.

Therefore, look up to the stars, as per Hawking's advice. Cure your boredom with curiosity, just like writer Dorothy Parker did.
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Curious people are powerful people. Paraphrasing Albert Einstein: you need passion and curiosity, not talent, to stand out. Powerful people are endowed with attentiveness and inner strength. What sets these people apart from the rest is they're always interested in the small details and focused on the big challenges.