Curiosity

Curiosity is like a summer experience of your youth. Growing up experiencing summer is often infused with the freedom of riding a bike and a breeze in your face, or stopping in at the corner store and browsing a choice selection of candy to spend a kid’s summer budget on.

Summertime is also notable as a time of transition for pushing boundaries, experimenting, and developing skills and strength through challenges, some won and some lost.  Newfound personal agency, exploration, and curiosity serve as a flywheel that fuels the summer season.

Then we grow up, falling into our “adult” patterns that focus us on following a fixed script. Our responsibilities increase and our ability to be curious tends to be pushed down below the surface.

Remembering that being curious offers many benefits, it is possible to reach down and pull it back up into play.  Personal and professional growth, as well as meaningful connection to others, can ignite curiosity. Be intentional about exercising curiosity as an adult and it will generate the same opportunity and energy.  Where do you once again need to become curious?