The other day I came across a quote. The things you come
across on Twitter can be pretty interesting:
I had no idea who Mason Cooley was, but I liked his quote so
I looked him up. The first source that came up was Wikipedia. It said that he
was famous for his aphorisms—another word I had to look up. Aphorisms turned
out to be short quotes that express a common truth, according to dictionary.com.
In my opinion, though, this quote was more than just a
generalized truth. It reminded me of the Alan Alda essay we studied in class, "Pass the Plate, Mr. Feymman." We did an activity after reading the article in which we made a "handbook for curiosity." It's true that curiosity and creativity are different things, but in my opinion, this quote connected them. I think that curiosity definitely leads to creativity.
One of the points in my group's curiosity handbook was "challenge your thoughts until you find new ways of thinking." Challenging original ideas is an important step in generating curiosity as well as being creative, which is what connects the quote to our handbook for curiosity.
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