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Ask HN: What are some good ways to restore curiosity?

2 points by aryamaan ↗ HN
Most of us realize that we were a lot more curious in childhood than we are now.

And it's such an important trait for living a healthy life in my opinion.

Did you try to restore your curiosity? What worked or what didn't? What did you learn out of it?

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jgtrosh
I feel like I'm more curious now (young adult) than when I was a child. This might just be biased or selective memory though. I have felt myself become more curious when interacting with some “infectiously” curious individuals. In retrospect I feel some jealousy as to their apparent natural curiosity but also can imagine that some of it might have stemmed from the interaction we had. Practice is also good: finding any kind of new skills and learning some discipline at improving in them and regularly moving on to something new improves your cognitive capacities and helps see past personal biases. Interacting regularly with new people about varied subjects is good training too.

I sometimes felt a lack of something when progressing in programming skills—it didn't feel so much a lack of curiosity as a lack of actual ideas: I didn't not want to discover new things but I didn't know how to transform that abstract desire into actual discovery. Maybe questioning your definition of the words you give to your problem can helps you find solutions.