Curiosity

Curiosity is a fundamental human trait that drives us to ask questions, explore the unknown, and seek answers. It is the “outstanding characteristic of modern thinking” that goes back to great thinkers like Galileo, Bacon, and Newton. Curiosity compels us to go looking for answers and leads us down new paths of discovery. Einstein believed curiosity was one of humanity’s best traits, writing “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

Definitely one of my main drivers. There might be a link to Serendipity.

Together, curiosity and serendipity are a powerful combination. Curiosity drives us to explore and ask questions, while serendipity allows us to make unexpected connections and discoveries along the way. By retaining our curiosity and being open to chance encounters, we increase the likelihood of experiencing “aha moments” that shape our personal understanding.

I dream of a new age of curiosity

Curiosity is a vice that has been stigmatized in turn by Christianity, by philosophy, and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity is seen as futility. However, I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me. It evokes “Care”; it evokes the Care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at the same things in a different way; a passion for seizing what is happening now and what is disappearing; a lack of respect for the traditional hierarchies of what is important and fundamental. I dream of a new age of Curiosity.

Michel Foucault in an interview with Christian Delacampagne, Le Monde, 6./7. April 1980.

I dream of a new age of curiosity. – Mapping the Marvellous)