The Magic of Curiosity
Children know something we don’t; this I am sure of. They know something about how to properly live. One of those “properly-living” prescriptions sorely missing from the ecology of the average adult is a cultivated spirit of curiosity. There are few among us that do not read those lines and experience a frisson of wistful, knowing recognition.
Curiosity is a virtue too often conceived of as a charming novelty enmeshed in an age of innocence but not transferable beyond this point. We ought to challenge our assumptions when it comes to this abandoned attribute and take time to trace its overlooked merits, in addition to gaining an understanding of how it so often gets grievously snuffed out in the proverbial shift to the “real world”.
It should be reassuring that curiosity is more natural than artificial. What do I mean by that? It is an innate feature — more dimmed by cultural conditioning than anything else. Luckily, each one of us has the capacity to locate it burrowed inside of us and dust its ancient magic off.
We might be surprised to learn that curiosity is richer than we think and as a mindset acts as a default curator of optimism, wonder, creativity, lightness, freedom, and the delights of individual mastery — just to name a few!
Anyone that has been around young children knows they are stunningly observant. Their wide…
