Einstein said: "If anyone is no longer curious and no longer surprised, he is no different from the walking dead, and his eyes are confused."
Einstein passed this sentence The powerful words underscore how important curiosity is in the journey of life.
Throughout history, many people who have made remarkable contributions to humanity have little stories about curiosity.
Newton was curious about an apple and discovered gravity. Galileo watched the chandelier sway, and curiously discovered the pendulum. Watt was curious about the steam coming out of the kettle and improved the steam engine.
Zhan Tianyou, the father of my country's railways, liked all kinds of mechanical toys since he was a child. Sometimes, he dismantled the clock in his home to study how it turned and struck the time. Toys became the introduction to his interest in mechanics. In the end, he became a famous railway engineer in my country and built the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which the foreigners were unable to build at that time.
There are countless stories about celebrities and curiosity, but I might as well tell my own story about curiosity.
At first, I just moved to a certain neighborhood. Every day after get off work, I look for food in the neighborhood that I have never heard of or tasted. After a month of "picky eaters", I managed to master the addresses of various specialty snacks in the neighborhood.
Once, my friend just came to Xi'an, and to show the friendship of the landlord, I took him to eat all kinds of food every day. A week later, my friend asked me in amazement: "Oh my God, you just want a live map of special food!"
I was very proud after hearing his praise. It all comes from curiosity about specialty cuisine.
At this time, you will understand the taste of eating and losing weight.
The drive to create comes from curiosity. With curiosity about something, there is a steady stream of motivation. I'm going to "disassemble and assemble" to find out. Therefore, as the understanding of this thing deepens, the quantitative change reaches the qualitative change, and it is very possible to create a new thing.
For humans, there are two kinds of curiosity, which we call the red personality and the blue personality.
People with red characters are curious about all kinds of things, and want to try and experience every product when they see it, and explore the mysteries in it. However, due to the breadth of curiosity, when they encounter difficulties in experiencing a certain product, they are likely to choose to give up and look for other things that can satisfy their curiosity. Broad and shallow, this is the characteristic of the red character.
People with blue personalities are born with the advantage of concentration. When they are interested in a certain product, they will be out of control, ranging from one day to ten years. They must explore clearly the function, material, principle, etc. of this product. , this curiosity leads to persistent exploration, and people with blue personalities can easily become experts in a certain field. Narrow and deep, that's what characterizes the blue character.
Under normal circumstances, the degree of curiosity decreases with age. The older you are, the more things you know, and the less things you are curious about. Therefore, the older people are, the more lack of vitality and creativity.
So, how to avoid this situation?
In the field of art, such as directors and actors, every time they participate in a play, they experience a kind of life, and their acting skills become more and more superb. For a quality actor, every play inspires curiosity. This is also the inner motivation of many veteran actors who say they want to act until old age.
For the general public, we cannot, like actors, improve our skills and experience different life or things at the same time. But we can learn from actors, take a certain career as the main line of life, and on the premise of ensuring a good living condition, boldly explore different industries.
For example, Leonardo da Vinci's main business is painting, but he is also an astronomer, inventor, architect, and is also good at more than 20 fields such as sculpture, music, and geology. Su Dongpo is a top-level lyricist, calligrapher, great painter, emperor's secretary, Buddhist, ascetic, philanthropist, engineer, and inventor.
We can say that Da Vinci and Su Dongpo are crossover experts. Their lives are full of interest and envy because of their curiosity.
At this time, looking at friends who are proud of their stable careers as civil servants, their jobs are actually trivial and repetitive and have nothing to do. Such a life itself is a tragedy, just like Einstein said the walking dead.
Would you rather be a civil servant with a mediocre life or someone who is curious about the world and wants to explore?
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