Curiosity—the desire to learn

If I ask you, what is curiosity, then what would be your answer? Well I know that most of you would just read the title of the post and say that curiosity is the desire to learn, but it is only a part of what curiosity actually is.

Anyone who wants to learn something new has this curiosity within him of learning that thing. This curiosity makes him ask more and more questions about that thing and know more and more about that thing. Curiosity gives someone a desire to learn.

If you are curious enough about something, then you will find more and more about that thing on your own and without any kind of guidance. You will search, and search, and search until you know exactly where you can mollify your curiosity. This curiosity makes you get amazed of that thing and try to know more and more about that thing.

When someone is curious about something, then that person asks more and more questions about that thing. Questions such as, “Why do we use it here?” or “What can make it better?” Like we discussed in a previous article, “what, why, where, how and when” are the five question words and a person who is curious enough to ask them says.

Mostly, curiosity can be seen in young children. You might often find them, “How is this done?” or “What is this?” or “What do we do of this?” etc. kind of questions. Everything that a young child asks reflects how curious is the child regarding something.

Curiosity is all about asking questions. If we ask more and more questions, then we will be getting more and more answers, and these answers will satisfy/appease/mollify our curiosity. Moreover, it will help us to gain more knowledge, which will help us to ask more questions. So the cycle of ask questions, get answers, ask questions, and get answers keeps going on and on and on.

If someone forbids asking questions, then that person is forbidding the curiosity that is within the soul of the questioner. Forbidding these questions of the questioner and forbidding his/her curiosity will make that person overall an ignorant person, which will not help in the modern world.

You see, in the internet age of the present world, questions have become more valuable than answers. This is because finding answers is just as easy as a walk in the park. Just enter your question, and thousands or even millions of results are available for you to get the answer.

So today, we need to ask more questions and verify have they already been answered by someone? If not, then it is just like a gold ore found in a gold mine. We get the opportunity to answer another question, which makes us more knowledgeable. We can discover and invent more things that can help us to become more developed.

Curiosity will trigger these questions which will help us to answer them, and gain more knowledge. Knowledge of ours will help us to excel forward. So develop this curiosity within yourself to do become an excellent student.