From the course: Using Questions to Foster Critical Thinking and Curiosity
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Benefits of being curious
From the course: Using Questions to Foster Critical Thinking and Curiosity
Benefits of being curious
- Albert Einstein said, "I have no special talent, "I'm only passionately curious." But scientific research indicates that nurturing your curiosity can also make you smarter and open to new experiences. The benefits of curiosity are not limited to the intellectual. For children and adults alike, curiosity has been linked with psychological, emotional, social, and even health benefits. It's a little known fact that some of the most intelligent and innovative figures of the past all had one thing in common. They were insatiably curious. Edison, Einstein, da Vinci, just to name a few, were all curious people who were fueled by the desire to know more. It's been said that children ask roughly 125 questions per day and adults ask about six questions per day, so somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we're losing a 119 questions per day. What happened? Somewhere along the way, many of us neglect our innate fascination and sense of wonder, and began to accept things for how they are. The…
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