Why is curiosity so important? Here are four reasons: 1. It makes our mind active instead of passive. The mental exercise caused by it makes our mind stronger and stronger. 2.It makes our mind observant of new ideas. 3.It opens up new worlds and possibilities.4.It brings excitement into our life.
Eleanor Roosevelt wife of President Roosevelt of U.S.A. rightly says “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
Why one should be curious.
There are 10 good reasons in this respect. 1.one will clarify themselves.2.One will uncover the truth. 3.One will release their inner child 4.One will experience something fresh. 5.One will increase their productivity. 6.One will learn more often .7.One will become more efficient.8.One will experience a spice of variety.9. One will be more positive. 10.One will establish new relationships.
Here are some tips to develop Curiosity:
1.Keep an open mind
2.Don’t take things as granted. Try to dig deeper beneath the surface of what is around you.
3.Ask questions relentlessly.
4. Don’t label something as boring.
5. See learning as something fun.
6. Read diverse kinds of reading
More than meaning of a word in dictionary many times illustrations make us understand it better.Keenly watching and knowing what one is doing is curiosity. Similarly,knowing how many marks x secured how many marks y secured in an exam is also curiosity. One doesn't know everything. One is not informed of everything. Only a little or half that's usually disclosed .One is not 'All-knowing; omniscient'. Being in society,one can't remain secluded without being curious. Curiosity is a natural instinct. It can't be taken away or oppressed. It drives one to study more and more.It is one of the personality strengths that help to develop our wisdom. It keeps one alert and on their toes.
Curiosity and interest are interrelated . Without interest curiosity doesn't arise and without curiosity interest doesn't arise too. Anything that's strange or peculiar incites curiosity in man. It makes a man mad. It may make him run from pillar to post.It may make him dance too. One who is curious wouldn't remain silent at all. What curiosity will do and what it will not do it can't be said at all.What would create it and what wouldn't create it can't be said . Sometimes ,even that which is treated as closed and that which is forgotten also creates it . One wouldn't have been aware what 's happening around or what' s happening at next door if they don't have curiosity.That's why world is brimming with it.Curiosity is not confined only to humans. Even animals are replete with it.Only a saint could be non curious. Nobody need tell whether they are curious or not. Their moments itself disclose their curiosity. Further ,face is the mirror of the mind and it reveals whether one is curious or not too. However,knowledgeable and intelligent one may be they would be also curious .
It's curiosity that enlightens one that world isn't small there's something beyond it.It makes one how to be more positive and confident. If it weren't for curiosity, Columbus would not have discovered America, and astronauts would never have landed on the moon.Why one thinks more of unborn tomorrow than of dead yesterday? Why one approaches a palmist or an astrologer ? Is it not due to curiosity. Curiosity is one of the most important aspects of life.It doesn't allow one to keep quiet. It makes one restless until it's completely satisfied. How one would become curious, what one would do on being curious and how curiosity would end couldn't be fully explained .Curiosity should be where it should be only. It shouldn't be where it shouldn't be.
Some like those who are curious. Some don't like those who are curious.
All aren't equally curious in the world. One is old. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't have curiosity. In fact, there's a saying "More a tamarind tree grows old, more sour tamarind is" Curiosity is common to human beings at all ages from infancy to adulthood, and is easy to observe in many other animal species. It's a quality in man that makes him superior to other creations.It's an important trait of a genius.It's mother of intelligence. It's inquisitiveness . It makes one restless. It doesn't allow one to keep quiet. It keeps one busy and engaged. One who is curious wouldn't be normally bored. When one recollects what the curiosities that they had they laugh to themselves . Curiosities are sometimes helpful but sometimes they are a nuisance . Sometimes,they make one to stoop to any level too. One should always try to develop curiosity that's wanted and curb curiosity that's unwanted in their life.
What questions they will ask and what answers we would give etc which arise in our mind due to curiosity only. If one is curious their eyes, ears and mind everything would be always open alert and quick . Curiosity is capable of changing one to a different personality. Curiosities aren't alike.They are different stories . What all curiosities one would have it can't be imagined even.Our friends and well wishers would be always curious to know our welfare but our enemies would be always curious to know our downfall. Curiosity is a funny quality too. Curiosities are individual choices . One is curious means one has interest in life. Some display curiosity. Some don't display it but keep it within . Curiosity that one displays make others understand them. Curiosity is always not about what something one knows but about something what one knows not. Situations, incidents, books, drama, movies,man and woman all incite it at one time or another. More than anything that's ordinary it's unusual and strange usually develops curiosity. Whenever one comes across suspicious behavior, it often generates curiosity. Similarly deviation from laid down procedures too develops it . Sometimes curiosity produces encouraging results and sometimes produces zero or nil result .
Curiosity differs from man to man. It's not in same quantum in everybody .It depends more on man than matters. Life also plays a role in rise and fall of it . Sufferings, disappointments, losses,and defeats dry it up whereas successes, triumphs, and all the good happenings bring an increase. It's capable of waking up even a dead too. It varies with intelligence quotient. More a dullard one is they would have lesser curiosities. It is curiosity that many times prompts one to undertake adventures. Uncertainty many times creates it. It builds curiosity. Longer it is more would be the curiosity. One who is curious won't run away from a situation.They would stand, wait and watch until all is over.
Man tries to overpower curiosity. Curiosity tries to overpower man.It is a tussle usually found in human life . Though, one couldn't be curious in everything, one could be curious in something at least. It can't be said what would create curiosity in whom. Curiosity correlates with academic achievement, and it can deepen our bonds in friendship . Curiosity could be aroused in a person.Whatever that one couldn't understand fully and which creates interest in them arouses curiosity in them also. Sometimes curiosities remain as they are unresolved Sometimes curiosities remain solved. Mostly,curiosities culminate with experiences or knowledge of one or another kind. Curiosities unanswered roam in mind. It's not enough if one has curiosity only, one must possess other qualities along with it. Besides, one must have opportunities to focus their curiosities and explore. Curiosity is trying to reach the bottom.
Cutting short curiosity of anyone is not good. It's sometimes nipping innovation in the bud. It may drive one mad also. One wouldn't make any headway in life without curiosity . It's quite essential in certain matters only in life.It must not be there in all matters at all. Curiosity has both good and evil. It's better it's always within the limits and confined to anything worthy only. Too much of it often lands one in trouble.Often it also induces one to exceed limit. It's difficult to control it also.It's an hunger that wouldn't go easily.It's a fire that wouldn't go easily too.It needs management. Where there's suspense there's curiosity. Curiosity is until anything takes place. It's seldom remains uniform through out. Unnecessarily one mustn't poke their nose in others affairs due to curiosity. Man wouldn't have been what he is to-day If as a child he were not curious . One must be curious to have more knowledge.Without curiosity man or world wouldn't have developed this much at all. It's a major driving force behind scientific research and other disciplines of human study. It makes one go deep into everything. Entrusting something to one who has no curiosity whatsoever is no good at all .Alastair Reid rightly says "Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all" .
Curiosity is an intense feeling that leads to anxiety. It makes one sometimes mad. It is a web too tight.It is a series of questions like what's it? ,what's there more in it?. More the curiosity more the number of questions arise. Curiosity and enthusiasm go hand in hand. When one is relaxed and leisurely one would have more curiosities. Successful are full of curiosity whereas those defeated lack it . Similarly, one who has no problems or worries would have more curiosities and those who have problems or worries have less curiosities.
Curiosity can lead one to a wrong path too. Sometimes it makes one do what they shouldn't do. Any feeling or emotion suppressed in fact doesn't recede, it grows more vigorously also.It can't be said where curiosity would lead one to. Sometimes , it could be dangerous too and one gets their fingers burnt.There'a saying "curiosity killed the cat" too. No one appreciates if one does eavesdropping due to curiosity. It's a bad habit. One must not be curious about everything. Curiosity is neither a virtue nor a vice. It doesn't allow one to sleep well.
Children would have more curiosity to know. A few would have that much curiosity to know through out their life.When there's noise outside how much curious children would be, they go dancing.When there's bomb explosion outside also many old people even do not move. They are unperturbed. As one grows old curiosity diminishes.More the restrictions more curious one would be especially the children .That doesn't mean there should be no restrictions on children . Children do not know what's good or what's bad. Proper upbringing of children is the need of modern society. It is an Herculean task. Curiosity is as bad as it is good. Many children resort to shaving due to curiosity only.
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