This Weeks video is about how many people have stopped being curious, and why curiosity is such a critical part of our being. We don’t wonder about something till it affects our lives in a negative way. As in the video, the speaker’s friend drops their phone in a toilet and they then wonder. How do they fix it? This is an important question that points to our fear of technology. Yes, we use technology all the time but can you tell me how it works? Do you know there are little microscopic machines that are so small that a helium molecule can make an iPhone stop working? That got your attention, didn’t it? You are now asking why or how?
I have stopped being curious for awhile
For a long time, I was very much into playing with computers. I would build new systems I would tweak every part of a computer to see what it would do. I knew you basically couldn’t break a computer software-wise. Yet as I got older my exploration slowed, Mainly out of convenience. If you had a home-built system you were always having to make small adjustments. it would work but you were pretty much the only one who knew how to get it to work. If it fell apart, you just put it back together again. Yet it became a pain to have to repair. Yeah, it may be good to do once a year slick the Hard drive and reinstall everything but damn it was a pain to do that. It was an all-day thing. So my curiosity about computers has faded. Now I can still work on computers and I even reinstalled MacOS 13 on a hard drive that couldn’t access the internet. How? I had to get curious.
Now we are afraid to work on something or peak at its internals because it costs so much money. We really can’t look at our phone’s internals because it takes special tools to separate the case from the guts of the phone. This is why a couple of years ago when people noticed that phones slowed down after a couple of years they tried to blame Apple for the slowing. Yes, they did slow the phone down but because the batteries only last about 2 years and you can’t just change out the battery as you would on the TV remote.
Kids help
One of the great ways to see what curiosity is all about is to watch kids. They are always in a state of wonder. They have no fear of breaking something. It is curiosity that allows them to learn about their world, and this curiosity is needed now that you are going through a tough spot like a divorce. If you aren’t going through a divorce but your marriage is shaky. It is good if you were to actually become curious about your spouse you would learn so much more about them. Those discoveries would be of a whole new person you didn’t know about.
