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1. Introduction: Iq is overrated and
curiosity is underrated. I believe if you are curious, then you could virtually learn any topic that you truly desire. The only issue is that
a lot of human beings, they have lost touch
with their curiosity. And you want to know something. Human beings are
curious to the core, There's two types
of curiosities. One that is helping you grow, the other one that is
rotting you from what then? Unless you understand how
to control your curiosity, you are going to be
controlled by it. In this beginner's class, you're going to understand
what exactly is curiosity. How can we use it productively
in regards to our life? How can we ask better
questions and why? Confusion is not only a good
thing, it's a great thing. At the end, you'll be given a final project
that will allow you to target your curiosity
towards the right direction. So you can supercharge your
learning if you're ready and excited to unlock your
curiosity levels, I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. What is Curiosity?: Curiosity is the
desire to know more. The desire part
is very important and that's something
that we're going to be unpacking in the next video.
3. 5 Human Desires: Human beings have
five core desires. The desire to bond, the desire to feel, the desire to acquire, the desire to know, and the desire to protect. Let's talk about
desires real quick. Were you ever taught how
to desire something? No. These are something that
are fundamental in humans. Let's say the desire to protect. This is because we
want to survive. This is something that we
were programmed width. Whenever you're
thinking about how am I going to be able to pay
my bills for this month? There's that level of urgency
that's coming within you. And it's something that you
want to look more into. You want to set up your
life in a way where yes, you can pay your bills. Another thing, the
desire to bond. I mean, I'm sure you've heard of the quote that humans
are social creatures. How social they are will
pretty much depend upon them. Some people love
to be surrounded by a multitude of individuals. Other people, they just like two to three people
in their inner squad. At the same point
still holds true. There's that desire to bond, maybe with others,
maybe with themselves. The desire to know. This is one that
we often overlook, but this is something that is
presented to us routinely. If someone comes up
to you and is like, Hey, you wouldn't believe what Sally was saying about you. You're gonna be like, what
is she saying about me? And the other person is like actually made me promise
not to tell you. Feel that feeling real quick. You feel that all these
tingling sensations. What does she say about me? I trusted Sally at a
cellulose, my friend. Why is she talking about me? I must know what
she said about me. That is raw desire. We can use that desire to understand any
subject out there as long as we can see some connection in
regards to our life. So the rest of this class
is to help you understand that you already are
a curious creature. But we want to target
that curiosity towards productivity rather
than for disruptive causes.
4. Asking Questions: A lot of individuals are
entering conversations with the predominant intent
of speaking a lot. Do you know people like that? Maybe you or someone like that. You're entering different
interactions thinking, what am I going to say in order to impress
the other person? Normally whenever you're leading with an intent like that, the exact opposite effect
ends up happening. Instead of impressing
the other person. You end up repulsing the other person because
you're putting on the strange bravado that they don't really care to know
your shell of yourself. But on those certain
conversations where you're leading with curiosity
mode, It's different. There's not as much
pressure on you and you're able to
flow a lot better. So simply getting into
that questioning mode, rather than always being
in the speaking mode is a great way to enter
into curiosity. And it's not going to be any kind of questions
that you ask, is going to be
questions that are suitable to the environment. If someone is telling you about
the recent job promotion, and then you just ask a story about what they
ate for breakfast. This is not an appropriate
question for the environment, but asking one question is not enough for you to
change your psyche. In regards to leading
with questioning, we need to understand
a concept known as drill down questions. And that's going to
be something that we bring up in the next video.
5. Asking Drill-Down Questions: Your body tells you that they
just got a job promotion. A lot of novice people
will be like, well, how do you like the job promotion and just
leave it at that? While highly curious people are going to ask
drill-down questions, How do you like the promotion? They respond back.
Okay. How long have you been working for
this promotion? Respond back. How do you see the skills
that you're going to learn from this job impacting
other parts of your life. The person responds back and
you ask another question. You started off
very surface level, but now you are drilling
deeper and deeper and deeper. This is very similar
to you go into the gym and not lifting weights to a point where it's comfortable. You're lifting weights
to a point where it's uncomfortable because by the
time it's uncomfortable, it's stretching your muscles
is breaking your muscles. So when you can leave the gym, you can rebuild the muscles. Very similarly, if
you are presented in different situations
where you ask a question, you open a portal. Now it's not just about asking that one question and
leaving it at that. We want to keep
drilling down more and more and more
satisfying this desire. And the more that we
satisfy this desire, the more debt we are. Showing ourselves the
glimpse of what it's like to direct our curiosity towards
a positive direction.
6. 6 Connecting Ideas: Curiosity doesn't just have
to happen with conversations. You have a thing
called the Internet. You can satisfy any
curiosity that you have. As you're going about
satisfying these curiosities. You're asking a lot of questions and drill down questions. You're eventually going to
get a lot of different ideas. One thing to keep you
very engaged in getting all these ideas is not to
just store these ideas away, but instead connect
them in an amazing way. Ways that other individuals never even thought
about connecting them. I was able to do this when
I was one day studying different polymorphs
are studying guys like Benjamin Franklin and
Leonardo da Vinci. Despite them living in different areas at
different times, I noticed a stunning parallel
in regards to both of them. They followed wherever
their body let them. It's like just as though that the gut instinct is
promo for the body. Curiosity is primal
for the mind. And both of these gentlemen, they did not question their
curiosities there over here, just learning about whatever
that interests them. Leonardo da Vinci,
for a certain period, was getting obsessed
about the beaks of birds. And Benjamin
Franklin was getting other people's writing
and writing them with his own hands in order to
become a better writer. These legendary folks, they're getting curious
about such strange things. And that's what I was
able to connect the idea. Within curiosity. Nothing is strange. It's only strange when
you view it as strange. And the more that you
view it as strange, the more scared that you become when you become timid
in the land of education. What happens is that you don't connect ideas in
a brilliant way. So here I am analyzing these two different
individuals as seeing them connect
in a stunning way. They were fearless
when it came down to the fulfilling of
desire to know more. So the more that
you're over here collecting these
different ideas, getting more
drill-down questions. Eventually, you want to make
it so that you participate. Take some risks, do your
best to try to connect. And even if you're
not successful, what's going to
happen is that in that process of challenging
yourself to say, how does this field
connect with this field? You are rewiring your
thinking processes in order to look for solutions
than problems alone.
7. Proposing Ideas: You've been connecting
ideas. Great. What about trying to
propose some ideas? This is another
thing that's going to supercharge your curiosity. And in order to propose ideas, it helps when you
are trying to solve a nagging problem in your life. Let's say you're one of
those individuals that wants to become a
polymath yourself. In the modern era, you have things that
Benjamin Franklin and Da Vinci never had. As your overhear trying
to become a polymath. You're studying, you're asking a lot of
these drill-down questions. You're connecting
a lot of ideas. What about if you can
propose some ideas as well after surfing the web and
educating herself so well. Now you know more. Then one day you just have this staggering idea
that you want to share. You know, Google. You know how a lot of the greatest articles
are on page one. That's not something that you're noticing from your experience. Instead, as you've been
learning more about polymath, you've been going to tabs
for 515 and much more. And you're realizing something. You're realizing that a
lot of great creators, unfortunately, do not know SEO. And a lot of average
creators do know SAO. So this is when you're
like, wait a minute, just because an
article is on page one does not mean
that that article has more valuable information
than an article on tab 15. Once you're realizing this, this is when you are having
a little spinoff idea of the drill-down questions. When you start off with one question and keep getting deeper and
deeper and deeper, you are about to propose an idea known as
drill down searching. We start off with one tab. Then you go deeper
and deeper and deeper and deeper that you go, the more that you
interconnect these ideas. This is you proposing an idea. Simply by proposing an idea, you become this creator. And as you become
a creator, now, curiosity pretty much
works for you rather than some algorithms telling
you what to get curious by. My friend. This is a portal
into a new reality.
8. Power of Confusion: The final thing that
I want to leave you with in terms of
becoming more curious is to leverage feedback loops,
aka leverage confusion. Confusion is really
bad when you're not trying to do
anything with your life. You're just taking
it day by day. And the default is that
you're gonna be confused. But when you are one of these individuals
that's going out of their way to give
yourself a goal. You're working
towards that goal. You're getting a
lot of these ideas, asking these deep questions, connecting these ideas,
proposing solutions. What's going to happen is that you're going to get confused. Simply hearing that
word confused. Does it imply a negative
stigma or positive stigma? For 99% of the people? It's a negative stigma. It's just how we
were conditioned. But if you are one of the
rare few that are like, I'm glad that when
I get confused, I'm glad because it's an
incentive for me to know more. Now, whenever I get confused, It's like I'm being given a compass on what I
should be studying next. In school, there's
a teacher that's giving you the curriculum. But in the real-world,
your confusion is creating the
curriculum for you. So have a positive
view in regards to confusion because
it just keeps you growing more and more and
learning more and more.
9. Final Project: For the final project, I want
you to choose one topic. Once you choose that one topic, I want you to create
ten questions on it. Once you create ten
questions on it, I want you to choose one of those questions and answer it. So to give you an example, the general topic that I'm
choosing is public speaking. Let's say one of the
questions I ask is, when did public speaking start? Another question I ask is, what exactly is public speaking? And another question that
I ask is, what are words? I need ten of these questions. Let say the question
that I want to answer is, what are words? This is going to be something
that gets me thinking. I will start a new words
until I was forced to, to find that words are symbols with the shared meaning that represent reality to
my subject of world. Simply by me answering
this question as well. I have built a deeper
understanding of public speaking. For your final project, you're going to
choose one topic, list out ten questions and
answer one of those questions. And do your best to get this, put it into a report format and post it in the final project
section right down below. I look forward to
learning more from you because I'm very
curious myself. If you enjoyed this
beginner's class on curiosity and want to learn
more about soft skills. Be sure to check out
our money talks.com, where you'll see a lot
of my blogs, videos, podcasts on topics such
as public speaking, social skills,
emotional resilience, much more, Armani talks.com. Go on and check it out.
Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
