How might you cultivate a higher degree of curiosity?
I think being curious is a natural thing every human feels or experiences. But it all depends on how that particular human being handles their curiosity. Do they constantly satisfy their curiosity? Do they nurture/care for it by always finding answers or building on new things to be curious about? Or would they rather be kept in the dark with unanswered questions? To cultivate a higher degree of curiosity you would need to expose yourself to brand new experiences and if it catches your eye you build on it from there. It's human nature to care about others' perception of yourself, it's human nature to seek an answer that seems clearer even though sometimes there is no answer to it's an answer we can't see for ourselves.
What benefits would this have?
The biggest benefit of having curiosity is learning about something new every day like fun facts. You have a little bit of a better understanding of our vast world that people don't know the same things as others do. Satisfaction is the biggest reward for answering what you're curious about. It heals your inner curiosity, possibly your inner child. Because when we were all children that's when curiosity starts to develop as soon as we talk, it could be the peak of curiosity in our lives. I bet everyone has had an encounter with a kid who just constantly asks questions nonstop like "What's this?", "How does this work?", "Why does this happen?", etc. We live, we learn, and we move on to the next thing to be curious about. A never-ending cycle that keeps life interesting.
Reflection
After watching the three videos that talk about the topic of curiosity, it makes me realize that humans constantly want to find an answer to how everything works. We want to explore the world/universe we were given. Like Stephen Hawking said, "Perhaps it is human nature that we adapt and survive. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe." The main goal of all of this though is to ensure there is a bright future for more generations to come because if we all end up living in conflict, nothing is going to get solved and life would be horrible and that's what Bertrand Russell talked about in his video. My favorite line from the video is where Bertrand Russell says, "I should say: Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." We have to learn to coexist with each other even if we don't see eye to eye.
From the reading of this week, I feel like we could all relate on some level because it has to do with identity. Identity makes up who we are, makes up our beliefs/values, and what we believe in. Sometimes believing in a higher power motivates people to go on living their day and for someone to be a part of a group where they share commonality is like a safe place where people can freely share their ideas.
