Although the pandemic is ongoing, I have been busy at work, even managing some creative activities. I have on occasion been wildly creative and also lucky with my creating but mostly just doing my job.
Still, here is an interesting article about curiosity. 5 Dimensions of curiosity.
This sounds a little like how my own blog started but in a more serious way:
For over 20 years, I have been studying curiosity. I didn't plan to be a curiosity researcher.
The following five categories are well explained at the link - I have removed the explanations to encourage your reading the original material:
1. Joyous Exploration.
2. Deprivation Sensitivity.
3. Stress Tolerance.
4. Social Curiosity.
5. Thrill Seeking.
4 types of curious people (again, details removed):
1. The Fascinated:
2. Problem Solvers:
3. Empathizers:
4. Avoiders:
and
We found overt social curiosity to be linked to healthy psychological outcomes including open-mindedness, extraversion, agreeableness, low negative emotionality, interpersonal competencies, and low levels of loneliness. With covert social curiosity, information is gathered by surreptitious routes such as gossiping, snooping, spying, and other indirect means of discovering what other people are like. Covert social curiosity was linked to much less adaptive psychological outcomes such as a motivation to avoid errors and mistakes in the workplace, and a tendency to complain to friends, family, and co-workers.
The discussion here on curiosity is also interesting.
Via Kottke.
