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"A healthy sense of curiosity is the best long-term strategy to ensure that your stories are interesting."
I really like the idea that keeping your audience interested in your stories isn't just dependent on their interest in what you're saying, but also on your interest everything else. The best example I can think of to illustrate the idea is a little kid telling a story or explaining something. I love listening to little kids go on and on about some idea they've gotten into their heads. There's something so amazing about listening to these little people who are figuring out how the world works for the very first time. They want to know everything about everything and they think it is all amazing and something to share with the rest of the world. You don't really meet many adults like that. Adults, for the most part, are sneaky and like to hide information away until there is something to be gained by sharing it. Maybe that's why most adults are really boring to listen to, because they are so stingy with their thoughts and discoveries.
I don't really know what happens to kids when they grow up that they stop expressing curiosity as freely. I do know that the most interesting adults to listen to are those who haven't lost that childlike sense of excitement over learning something new and are excited to tell you about it. There's nothing worse than getting all excited about learning something new just to have the person telling you about it act like it's no big deal. When that happens I tend to lose all interest in hearing anything else from that person. Many people loose all sense of wonder and excitement as they get older and they get to where they don't want to seem too interested in anything. Why is that? Are they afraid that people will think less of them if they find out they don't know everything? Does it have something to do with that ever present pursuit of "cool" that I keep hearing about? Or is it just a natural part of growing up? I really hope it isn't, the last thing this world needs is more boring people running around.
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posted by JessieAnn @ 4:32 PM
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You are making some really good points here, Jessie!!!
One thing that comes with wonder and curiosity that you may seem naive...or that is at least what are children to be said. As an adult there are limited explanations to a phenomenon; for a child the universe is truly infinite. children are not so much restraint by logic (*gag*!)- or at least what adults define as logic
2nd: Adults in our society have huge problems to show vulnerability. I think showing that you have a lack of knowledge can make you vulnerable (I know a child never would think that way!!!!) It makes you dependent of somebody who tells you how things work out (sometimes you cannot find it out your own...)that person then has power over you (as you said..adults are sneaky!).
3rd Adults tend to categorize things into important and not important....and some things are just "too small to matter".
I remember that I once saw a tiny model of a flexible bus (the long ones with the harmonica-middle-part)and it totally cracked me up. a friend of mine who was with me was like: "My brother is 10 and he would crack up about that...you are really childish!" - unnecessary to say it hurt me that she said that!
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