What if Curiosity Is a Habit?
Why break bad habits when you can start better ones?
What if curiosity can not only become a habit, Curiosity-Based Thinking can help make curiosity your best habit for learning, innovating, and more?
According to Dr. Judson Brewer (Dr. Jud), Brown University neuroscientist and author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smart Phones — Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits:
Bringing curiosity and mindfulness to your cravings changes your relationship with them and de-activates brain areas involved in craving. “The Neuroscience of Habits”
This is super cool —definitely read the article since it gives a three-step process on how to use curiosity to de-activate brain areas — but what if your curiosity isn’t just good for forming better habits, what if curiosity is a habit?
Dr. Jud simplifies the process of habits to:
Trigger → Behavior → Results
When you think about it, curiosity follows a similar formula: something triggers your curiosity, that trigger initiates a behavior (e.g. learning something new), that then produces some sort of result (e.g. action, experience, or discovery based on what was learned or done from the trigger).
