Curiosity helps you age more slowly

Curiosity helps us age more slowly. For children, it extends their view of life. In between, at all ages, there are people who, not squandering this almost natural human desire, always manage to have new stimuli, new energies, new desires for knowledge and relationships. Knowing that curiosity in human existence is like gasoline in a car: it must never run out, otherwise the car stops, but when it runs out of the tank because the gas station attendant mistakenly puts too much in, it ends up on the ground and becomes useless (those who are too curious are condemned to enter the rather infernal circle of indiscreet people).

He was the British philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in the early seventeenth century and therefore well before the Enlightenment, to give the proper value to curiosity. To make it, along with rationality, a fundamental human characteristic, the true trait that distinguishes us from animals. With Hobbes, scientific humanism was born, with curiosity at its core. A driving force behind knowledge, and the developments it brings in the present and future. The entire epic of medical discoveries, the fruits of long-standing science and knowledge, was born under the banner of curiosity, capable of changing the destiny of humanity.

And unlike rationality, a cold, analytical, almost detached feeling, curiosity is warm, expressing desire, and therefore—another distinguishing feature of humans from animals—we can classify it within the realm of passions. A passion that goes hand in hand with reason: Jane Austen's literary masterpiece, Sense and Sensibility, came about two hundred years after Hobbes's theories. The British philosopher's studies are highly relevant today, as there is a need to reevaluate and maximize curiosity.

The best natural medicine against any form of trough, in a bad mood, with negative melancholy, and above all against the boredomCuriosity. We should teach it to children from an early age, always cultivate it, and never lose it, especially as we grow into adults.

Curiosity is the most precious life companion we can invent, and this is also why it allows older people to stimulate their brains and slow down cognitive decline, as demonstrated for years by several scientific research.

One word, just one, evokes the compass of a change inspired by the optimism of will, of a desire for the future that does not exclude the cultivation of the past, of memory. Whoever loses it, risks losing himself to the point of remaining a prisoner of his own. solitudeWhoever finds it will have exciting company for life. Yes, because curiosity, among other things, has no age: it appears in children, Already in childhood, with that barrage of questions whose answers allow them to broaden their perspective on life; it settles into adolescence and youth, when it accompanies people's growth; it helps maintain the will to live, in the elderly and the elderly, especially those in poor health. Woe betide those who waste so much strength, especially internal strength.

Being curious means having a critical sense, not stopping at the sometimes deceptive appearance of things. And therefore more tolerant, open to diversity of race, religion, faith, and thought. Curiosity is a light-hearted and pleasant exercise to overcome the dark evil of indifference, so widespread in contemporary times.

Curiosity, we must know, and this is yet another reason not to squander it, can be extinguished. A setback in our love life, a great pain that dampens our enthusiasm (even for life), the irrepressible fatigue of daily life, the (mistaken) feeling of having already seen and done everything. To stay curious, by developing the exercise we've discussed, all that's left is to ask questions, cling to everything we don't know, always a lot, even a simple detail, and to intrude into the lives of others with discretion, delicacy, but without conventional shyness. The oxygen of curiosity always flows through people in their diversity and uniqueness.