The Blunt Edge of Curiosity

Curiosity certainly has a blunt side to it which everyone can benefit from if utilized correctly. In order to make more sense you can call it "the useful side of curiosity". I know this might seem a bit weird since our general notion of curiosity is that it's a bad act because we generally associate it with sticking our noses in people's businesses and wanting to know information we are not supposed to know. However, let's return back to the definition of "curiosity". Curiosity is the desire to know more about and learn about something. 

So the next question we need to ask ourselves is: "Why can't we use curiosity as a tool to advance and do better in life?" There are a lot of things in life that have two uses: one good and another bad. Curiosity is one of these things you can tailor to your benefit. As Albert Einstein once said: "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Can anyone imagine education without curiosity and asking questions? Imagine you wake up any given day, head to your university class, and have the professor explain the new concept without hearing a single question from any of the 100+ students. It could just be the case for one unusual day, but this will never be the norm.  

  

Edmund Burke said it well: "The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity." Curiosity is just built in us. Learning is an aspect in which we could use interest and curiosity in a positive way to lead us to ask questions and research to achieve our goal of becoming more familiar with a certain topic. Without this built in curiosity and interest, we could well still be using Bell's 19th century telephone or a very basic advancement of this. Curiosity when used correctly always sparks this interest to know more and more and is one of the reasons we have scientist who love their jobs and provide us with daily technologies all the time. 

If you like this post, you would be interested in the post about the bad side of curiosity, titled "The Sharp Edge of Curiosity" or the topic in general "Curiosity is a Two-Edged Sword".

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