Curiosity needs courage
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- We settle for confusion rather than face the discomfort of trying to understand something that is confusing. It’s easy to admit that you don’t understand something well and even easier to convince yourself that you
- Our fears associated with answering our questions stifle our desires to seek out answers. As children, we don’t have the same fears we do today. We’re not worried by what society will think. We’re not worried of being wrong - in fact we almost always are in the beginning. We’re not willing to settle. We just want to reach out and touch the flame.
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I don’t think that curiosity is about being smart (although people who are curious are always very smart). It’s about having the courage to ask stupid questions. It’s about having the audacity to question why something works in a certain way. It’s about being unafraid to seek out answers at whatever the cost - no matter what our peers may think, no matter how much the answer may scare us, no matter what.
- After all, figuring out the right answers is mainly about asking the right questions. When we have the courage to ask any question, we take one step closer to finding our answer.