Complacency has never moved the world forward.
It’s tough, isn’t it? Having to stare the challenge of doing something new or different square in the face and not blinking? Phoning it in JUST this once wouldn’t be bad, and nobody would know the difference, right? The path of least resistance beckons early and often in nearly any process. It takes on innumerable forms and goes by many names, but the excuse that only the trained eye might ever catch the effect it has on the creative it yields is bullshit of the highest order.
Complacency has never moved the world forward. Healthy curiosity can be found at the source of everything from masterworks of art to revolutions in science and technology. Picture your earliest years as a child; your entire universe is based on playing and exploring and experiencing new things. Picture in your mind the objects and ideas and techniques you use every day. Picture paintings and photos that move you. Hear in your mind’s ear songs that do the same. Without someone, somewhere experimenting in some way, shape, or form, how many of those things might not be a part of your life? Curiosity is the crucial component. Embracing, revering, employing, and enjoying it must replace the fear of it, the reluctance around it, and the feeling that the world is now moving too fast to consider it part and parcel of the process anymore. Learning, seeing, or doing something new every day should be a goal for one and all.
Curiosity is a flag to be waved, a cause to be carried, and an idea to be celebrated by living it day in and day out.
Are you killing curiosity? Or would you gladly serve to herald it, defend it, and, most important, inspire it?
That is the real question...