WHY CURIOSITY IS SO IMPORTANT and what you can do to develop yours

Personal DevelopmentPersonality
Written By Dan Fox

I wonder what’s in here?

Why curiosity is so important and what you can do to develop yours. Curiosity is so important for our personal development, yet as adults, it can seem as if curiosity is no longer valued in society. In this video, I discuss some of the research behind curiosity, why curiosity is so important, and what you can do to rekindle curiosity in your life.

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Relevant Links/Stuff Mentioned:

📑► Research on interest as it relates to curiosity: Silvia, P. J. (2008). Interest—The Curious Emotion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(1), 57–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00548.x

📚► This book is by the author of the above paper if you want a more accessible exploration of interest - 'Exploring the Psychology of Interest' https://books.google.com/books?id=YxhnDAAAQBAJ

📑► The meta-analysis I mentioned with a discussion of the 5 curiosity dimensions: Kashdan, Todd & Stiksma, Melissa & Disabato, David & Mcknight, Patrick & Bekier, John & Kaji, Joel & Lazarus, Rachel. (2017). The Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people. Journal of Research in Personality. 73. 10.1016/j.jrp.2017.11.011. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321471978_The_Five-Dimensional_Curiosity_Scale_Capturing_the_bandwidth_of_curiosity_and_identifying_four_unique_subgroups_of_curious_people

Dan Fox

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