“The Power of Curiosity” is an article from Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life (published in May 2010) that can certainly change one’s perspective on their outlook on life. How? The author, Todd Kashdan, explains how curiosity actually has a lot of beneficial traits that we are not aware of, but if we think about it, it is exposed in our everyday life. How was the author so convincing for us to believe that being curious can actually benefit an individual? The purpose of this article was to target those who are interested in a different and healthy lifestyle. Due to the fact that the article was published in a fitness magazine, it was intended to promote a better style of living, therefore it was automatic that the author had to use his words wisely and the way he presented the material. Kashdan uses ethos, pathos, and logos to convince his audience about his argument that curiosity has enhancing benefits towards our lives and that we should involve ourselves towards them. …show more content…
It then approaches our state of mind, the state of being curios, the state of being happy. With wanting to know more, we can achieve a level of happiness by being curious. Curious is definitely the key word here. We can develop it in our everyday routine along with its five benefits. The five benefits can be brought to us in our everyday life, but do we actually think that being curious can benefit our life? Kashdan proposes that these five benefits can be reached out with just being curious. He is also a clinical psychologist that works with stress, anxiety, and relationships with others. In his life, he has published over 175 articles. He has been named Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year at George Mason University and received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (PsychologyCollege of Humanities and Social
We as humans tend to have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. We look for knowledge about everybody and everything that surrounds us in our day-to-day life. Sadly though, we must accept that in the grand scheme of life we (as a society) tend to put pleasure above our quest for knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge tends to take time and energy, two things we call invaluable, and it also shows us things that might depress us. Contrastingly, ignorance takes no time and energy.
In a novella by Ayn Rand called Anthem, creativity is a sin, punishable by lashes or, if severe enough, death. Curiosity, because it is one of the branches of creativity, is also a great wrongdoing. In the beginning, Equality 7-2521 talked of his sins and that the curse he has that causes his curiosity “is our wonder and our secret fear, that we know and do not resist” (18). Technology, although incredibly mindboggling, was the reason he feared the repercussions of his thought-crimes.
If there is something that can be said about all and every human being, it’s that they always want to know something. They might not all have the same interests, but even so, they are alway thinking to themselves “why this? why that? how does this work? when is this happening?”. It is therefore the reason why we ask questions. This envy of knowledge, or in other words, this “curiosity” is the stimulus that drives people to go onto quests, and sometimes great adventures. The preceding hypothesis can be explored in Paulo Cohelo’s The Alchemist, and also Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. The thesis will be exploited by primarily talking about what curiosity is, then secondly, it’s ubiquitousness in The Alchemist and Oedipus the king, and finally, by
I lived a simple, normal childhood in the company of my family and friends. But I had what one might call “abnormal:” my obsession to finding answers to questions on my own. I refused to listen to what people told me about the world or how they answered my questions. It was not enough. I preferred to seek the knowledge of why the answers were the way they were. I thought that would help me find a true purpose in the simple actions we do throughout our lives. In school as a child, the teachers would struggle trying to keep their patience with me. Through every integral concept we learned in class, I would continue to question my teachers because I was never concerned with “how” we do something, but more about “why” each step in solving a problem is important. Through this process of searching for
“The future belongs to the curious. The ones, who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out” –Unknown. Throughout the novel, the author, Erin Bowman, shows that curiosity is found to be unfortunate which influences people to break rules, since it was not always meant to be pursued. Being too curious can lead to complications, new innovations and discovering private knowledge.
Curiosity is often defined as a strong desire to know or learn something. Being filled to the brim with curiosity is one of the most amazing feelings. Finding something you are interested in and wanting to know every single thing there is to know about it. Being inquisitive is such a powerful thing, always wanting to see more, to hear more, to do more, to be more. It makes people who they are, if someone is not very curious, they might be very dull because they know what they know and they are content with that. It is the naturally curious people that get more out of life, because they are always searching for something more, something bigger and brighter, and often they find it. But, in certain situations, being overly curious can land you in a place you did not plan on being and a place you do not want to be. This shows through certain works of literature, for example, Charles Perrault’s story “Bluebeard”. Through the ages, this story has been tagged as one about the negative effects of female curiosity. Bluebeard’s wife in the story is given a key by her husband to a locked door in their home. She is told to not go in that specific room, but overwhelmed with curiosity she does anyway. Another work, a film in fact, The Piano directed by Jane Campion, is an adaptation of “Bluebeard” and makes some very distinct references to it. The Piano also points to themes of female curiosity through the main character Ada McGrath. Ada is married to a man named Alistair whom she had never met. She begins to have an affair with another man, named George Baines, under unusual circumstances. Her husband finds out and naturally blames it on her “female curiosity”, and proceeds to punish her. Her punishment is similar to the pu...
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it ” (69). This is a quote from the book Dr.
...ich may be described as a desperate addiction to discovery is a fine concept but a dangerous practice. Man's natural flaws debase any professed altruistic goal; all attempts at discovery are ultimately revealed to be corrupt, selfish, and misbegotten.
middle of paper ... ... Our curiosity is what makes our interactions interesting and entertaining. As members of society, it is our innate ability to wander further than what we have in front of us. We want to impose our opinions on everything.
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Curiosity is a personality trait that everyone has in some way or another throughout their whole life. How it is defined, however, is up for debate. Many people consider curiosity to be simply a desire to learn and know, but scholars tend to take the meaning deeper. George Loewenstein (1994) describes curiosity as the attraction to information that “confers no extrinsic benefit,” so people tend to delve more deeply into things than would serve to help them somehow. To define it in a more distinctive manner from other traits such as novelty-seeking, one may say curiosity is a, “positive emotional-motivational system associated with the recognition, pursuit, and self-regulation of novel and challenging opportunities” (Kashdan 2004). Researchers
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” (Albert Einstein) Do you agree?
Everybody; old and young have active an imagination, but we all express it differently than others. For me I express my imagination with my artwork. For example; when I was younger I watched a lot of cartoons just like any other kid. My favorite cartoon at the time was He-Man. I loved the show so much that I frequently dreamt and imagined of being strong like him, but I knew it could not be possible so instead of dreaming, I drew up an entire comic book of myself being a super strong super hero just like He-Man all thanks to my vivid imagination and artistic ability. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has done something similar.