Reignite Your Natural Curiosity

Wide-eyed children love to ask enthusiastic, persistent questions. "Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why don't people have tails? Where does a TV show go when it's over?" No sooner is one question answered than a follow-up question is immediately posed with the same level of boundless curiosity.

We tend to ask fewer questions as we get older. At some point in our process of "growing up," questions start to be perceived by others as a weakness instead of a strength. We don't suddenly have all the answers, but we commonly begin stifling our questions and eventually start forgetting many of them.

Many wise people urge us to resist that social pressure, cultivating our curiosity and continuing to courageously ask questions:

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." - Carl Sagan

"Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them." - Clarence Birdseye

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

"Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied." - Edmund S. Morgan

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

If you are among the majority of us whose level of curiosity has dimmed over time, may you reignite your natural curiosity today!

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