Why so curious? - Day 5

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Curiosity. Being curious. Something everyone out there knows really good. In fact I never met a person who was not curious about something and while some people talk very openminded about it, other people think about it as something really sneaky.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines curiosity as "an eager wish to know or learn about something" and with that they are perfectly right. But what is the connection here with creativity enhancement? Isn't curiosity just a bad habit of everyone? Isn't it just about poking ones nose into other peoples business?
Keep on reading and I will tell you more ;-)

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After the parts explaining how to gather a lot of ideas and also how to create new ones it is time to talk about what it needs to get a good idea. And guess what - it's curiosity!

You may think that curiosity is more about other peoples lives than your own ideas, because you know them already, why should you be curious about it? The answer is easy: When coming up with ideas, you don't really know what exactly you're looking for. You need to be curious about your ideas to keep on thinking about and improving it. Without curiosity you'd stop thinking about it before you could find what you are really looking for! So always keep in mind that:

1. we don't know where ideas come from

2. but you certainly need curiosity to obtain them.

So stop thinking that curiosity can only be used to create awareness for marketing concepts, to blame people or to just satisfy your own curious mind. A natural sense of curiosity can be very helpful in your creative thinking process.

As you can maybe see, my advice is to stop stalking strangers, stop listening to conversations you're not a part of (yes, I know it's hard to resist!) and stop wasting your curiosity on other people. Keep it to yourself and come up with the greatest ideas one has ever seen.

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In case that you still need a little inspiration on this whole curiosity thing, I have the perfect answer for you: Disney. 

When I was looking for some inspirations for this post I, as a passionate fan of all the Disney movies, discovered that curiosity is actually a topic covered in most of those movies. And since there is not better thing to get inspired from than music, I put together this little song selection for you:

I hope you enjoy being curious without need to be ashamed of it and see you tomorrow!

Yours,

AL

Tomorrows topic: "Talking about Failure"