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Today's
Meditation:
There are very few things that I know for sure, but
one of them is this: the students I work with who
inquire, who ask questions, who take risks on their
assignments, who don't want to know just the information
but also why and how the information became known, are the
ones who normally succeed in all they try. They push
themselves, and they push others to think harder in order
to give answers.
The world is full of opportunities and possibilities that
we never will learn about if we don't push the limits of
our knowledge, take risks and ask questions of people who
should be able to answer them. Sometimes it's easy
not to be curious: it's less work not to open new
doors and explore new areas. But it also tends to be
much less fulfilling to have such a passive approach to
life, an approach that doesn't give us the chance to take
advantage of much of anything at all.
The people at work who ask questions and learn more about
their field than others tend to be those who make the
discoveries and get the
promotions. Those people at school who constantly
inquire learn more than others, and their future classes
tend to be much easier because of all that they've learned
by pushing themselves. And curiosity may be an
inherited trait for some, but most of us need to develop
it and work at making it work for us. For most of
us, it doesn't necessarily come naturally at all, and it
takes quite a bit of effort.
Most of my rewarding moments in life have come through
learning something new and different or accomplishing
something that is beyond my previous limits. I only
achieve these things when I allow myself to tap into my
curiosity and take the chance of exploring things that are
new, different, and even quite scary. But it's that
scariness that lets me know that it's important.
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