9 Reasons to cultivate curiosity and Improve Your Marketing Skills

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What is Curiosity

Curiosity is wonderment?

Did you know we are hardwired to wonder. Children have an innate sense of wonder, awe and amazement about life. When you retain this wonderment your innate sense of curiosity will remain strong. This will lead you to be a life-long learner, with a thirst for knowledge, and an enriched life rather than a jaded one!

Curiosity Brings Its Own Reward

The latest scientific findings in the field of cognitive neuroscience state that curiosity brings its own reward. When you feel curious about something, the limbic system in your brain lights up and this is the part of your brain that is associated with reward. This is why teachers use curiosity as a way to “hook” their students in to their subject matter.

If you can make the material interesting, then it becomes much easier to engage with.Curiosity actually puts the brain into a state of arousal that makes learning easier. This can make it simpler and much less painful to learn boring information. If you sandwich the boring stuff up insomething, which you are naturally curious about, it, becomes easier to remember!

Just imagine and wonder how you can use this in your marketing endeavours.

Variety Is The SpiceOf Life

Research has found that when we encounter new things and feel excitement and interested about them, our brains release dopamine and other neurochemicals that make us feel good. This means it is a good idea to seek out new and novel ways to engage with the world. It will, quite simply, make you feel happier.

What can you dodifferently?

What can you try that you’ve never tried before?

Haveyou ever considered writing a bucket list?

It may help you engage with life in a novel and stimulating way that you wouldn’t have thought about otherwise. This can bring a fresh perspective and, if you take action on your bucket list, following through on your curious impulses will lead to greater life satisfaction.

Human Connections

When you are genuinelyinterested in another human being, and show that you really feel curious about him or her, they will feel that. They will feel your authenticity and respond to that and they will find it easier to connect with you. They are more likely to like you! Being curious about other people is a great way to be perceived as a likeable person! And you will enjoy the process of learning about people if you are naturally curious about them.

You will also be more open to conflict resolution if you can remain open to another person’s perspective, even if you disagree with it. Remaining curious and willing to understand others can help in this regard.

Creating humanconnections is one of the key experiences of life, and the more you do this the more your life will feel fulfilled and much less empty.

Curiosity Is Like A Brain Gym

Another way that beingcurious can be good for you is, that when you stay mentally engaged and interested, continuously learning about new things, your brain remains active and “exercised”; you are less likely to experience the cognitive decline so often associated with aging, such as memoryloss or dementia. Curiosity keeps your brain in shape!

Some of the most mentally alert older people are those who have retained an interes tin the world around them and have kept learning all the way through their lives.

You can even use some exercises from Brain Gym to help keep your mind alert and sharp. One such exercise is known as the cross-crawl. It helps to exercise and balance equally the two hemispheres of the brain, which can lead to more balanced thinking. The left-brain is associated with logical and analytical thinking and the right brain is associated with creative thought.

To do the cross-crawl,stand with your legs hip-width apart. Bring your right knee up and touch it with your left hand. Switch to the other side and bring the left knee up to touch the right hand. Repeat several times.

Cross crawls can't change bad situations in your life but they can very quickly change how you feel about them.

Curiosity Leads To Flow

When you are engrossedin your topic or activity, you can more easily experience “flow,”a term coined by psychologist Csikszentmihalyi. “Flow” is theexperience of being fully present, enjoying what you are doing. It is that halcyon space where you lose all track of time because you are so immersed in what you are involved in or learning about. It’s also known as the “zone.”

Time falls away andeverything becomes effortless. Flow can even lead to states of ecstasy, according to Csikszentmihalyi, where a process such ascomposing or painting, seems to be happening all by itself, and youare just sitting there in awe, watching yourself create in a state of wonderment! You can even become curious about which activities might lead you into a state of flow.

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Curiosity Helps You Embrace Adventure!

Staying curious can help you become a more daring risk-taker. Because you really want to know, you are more willing to leave the old and familiar routineand take up a challenge, in order to reap the rewards of new knowledge and stimulation.

This mindset enablesyou to embrace change and stay cool with uncertainty. This leads to a far more satisfying life than the one where you stay huddled up inthe comfort of the mundane, yet safe and familiar.

Curiosity helps you to become an explorer and an adventurer in the game of life. It helps you to leave your comfort zone and, “Go boldly where no man hasgone before…”

Open Engagement With Life

Just like anything we practice often, we become better at it. Practicing being curious about life leads to more openness and engagement with life, which leads to more experiences and adventures, which lead to more satisfaction, meaning, and fulfilment.

Curiosity, which leads to more engagement and more activity and learning, can also lead us to more flow, where life truly becomes a magnificent place to be, and even revel in.

Curiosity Is Positively Associated With Being Smarter

Studies have found links between intelligence and higher levels of curiosity in both children and adults. In his book, Curious?Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life,(HarperCollins, 2009), author Todd Kashdan, PhD, explains that research has even shown links between curiosity and greater problemsolving capacity, and analytical ability.

Einstein himself is quoted as saying that he didn’t possess any particular intelligence, only a great capacity for imagination! His curious mindled to him being hailed as the greatest physicist of all time, in spite of his early struggles with school and academia. He didn’teven speak until the age of nine and his father died thinking of his son as a failure. However, his curiosity led him to making some radical discoveries and being considered, no just highly intelligent,but in fact, a genius.

Curiosity Makes You Happy

Stress management pioneer and psychologist Martin Seligman, PhD, and colleague Chris Peterson, PhD, undertook an intensive research project into the fundamentals of human happiness. They looked at ancient wisdom texts from ancient philosophers, holy books, and modern-day writers.

From their analysis of themes and patterns in these writings, they deduced that human being shave 24 basic strengths. Curiosity was one of those strengths most closely associated with being happy.

A recent Gallup poll,designed to be representative of the world’s population, found that when people have someone to turn to for support, someone upon whom they can rely, and have recently learned something new, then these people were more likely to have experienced enjoyment than people who did not haveaccess to those two things. Of course, the happier you are the better your life will be as it will spill over into all the areas of your being.