How I became curious:
As a child, I was very curious. Just like other kids, I asked why the moon moves with me when I do move. What are these dust particles in the air called? But never got an answer. I was always excused, and when I asked the question, I never backed off. I always got the wrong answer because people around me were not interested. They said that these dust particles are children of the sun. I grew up in the same educational system and kept memorizing facts. Asking questions wasn’t rewarding at all. For me, learning wasn’t fun; it was hell. For me, errors were failures. No matter what I did but I was never happy doing anything.
Lie about Learning and Fun:
You might have struggled with the same things and never noticed. But then I realized that sitting to learn wasn’t as tough as it is now. I thought I should change this fact. Like most people, I started watching tutorials and doing research, guess what I found? People now believe that learning doesn’t always have to be fun. While, according to me, it should be fun. Just think for a moment, if learning wasn’t fun, then why would Einstein learn without being assigned? He was not grinding, I can assure you, because he said that learning has to be fun, and it should give you intellectual growth. Learning is a part of our evolution, indeed, it should be fun. But it is not fun because of school poisoning. Basically school poisoning means killing the curiosity of young minds so that there are servants, not leaders, and problem solvers.
Became Curious again:
Even though I found the answer that learning doesn’t always have to be fun but I was never satisfied. I kept asking myself, and I realized that curiosity needs breaking your brain’s beliefs. It might sound irrelevant, but it’s not. One mistake a lot of people make while learning is that they believe things. If an article says to them that recently scientists have discovered that Earth was never round but we started seeing it round out of fear, I think people would start to believe it without a second thought. But when people choose uncertainty and start moving a little bit, they become curious. If you are just uncertain that Earth is round or flat but never read, never imagined, then it’s not gonna make you forcefully curious, but it would be hell for you. But it’s not so linear that you start being uncertain and things go in your favor. Most people don’t know how they can be uncertain. Don’t worry, I will guide you with that too.
Breaking pattern recognition:
When we are kids, we don’t assume results, but as we grow up, our brains start to believe certain things as they are expected to be. If the tutorial says that doing this will lead to this, the adult brain is 100% sure that this is gonna happen, or this won’t work. But when there is a state, this might work or this might not work. There are other things, like people judge things a lot. They often subconsciously take the name of a topic as a reference to its details, and if the details are not what they expected, they become frustrated. So, better not believe anything. Hope you get this, but I am not sure even if some read this completely, maybe you did or maybe not.
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