Primarily, I decided to start my advanced placement literature homework on a different path. Since we would end up creating our summer remix in the style of Maria Popoa, I wanted to become fairly acquainted or comfortable with her work through the brain pickings. So that’s where I started, and I heard the words of Einstein, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Lightman, and Leslie. They all had import themes, but the one that impacted me was the importance of wonderment, curiosity, and passion.
To be able to properly find the significance of something you have to have wonderment: a state of awed admiration for something or someone. This harnesses the interest in investing your time into something new, and it opens a door into learning more about that topic. Wonderment was introduced to me, from The Passion Of The Soul by Renè Descartes, as wonderment being our first encounter with something that has taken us by surprise. The first steps a child took, the first time someone was asked on a date, the first test someone got an A on without studying, all these things led them to wonderment. Wonderment arrives when you least expect it, and it gives you a new perspective of whether you would have interest or not. It’s the start to you curiosity. I took the concept of wonderment into consideration, because it compares the reality of internal interests and the reaction of surprise in juxtaposition. When we find something we instantly want to investigate, because it is our human instinct to answer the question of what and why. This wonder that we contain is turns into curiosity, but the question I asked myself is, “what if we are mistakenly curious?” We always hear that curiosity killed the cat, and even Popoa admitted that we see curiosity in the dim light due to the world’s stigma of approving new ideas or the willingness to find the imagined reality. The eldest stories like Adam and Eve give us caution of curiosity, and it’s seen as a rule breaker and limitless. As Ian Leslie, writer of Curious said, “curiosity is a muscle- use it or lose it,” because curiosity branches to a passion of finding knowledge. While our curiosity can lead us to our passion, it can also lead us to blind curiosity that stops us from looking at the details but only the things that bring us wonder. Descartes said that “blind curiosity can become a lifelong disease: the curiosity, that is, of people who seek out what is rare only marvel at it, not to understand it”. During this class, I know I will be faced with multiple pieces of literature that I’ve possibly never heard of or thought about, but I hope that my scope of curiosity will be genuine. A feeling of wonder is liberating, but actually finding joy in your curiosity brings passion. As Einstein has stressed to me that “there exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on.” I don’t want to be one of those people who lose passion, but as I grow up, I quickly find myself not fight to find an interest in what I learn. The lack of wonder leads to a lack of curiosity. That lack of curiosity leads to a lack of passion, and a lack of passion leads to a lack of knowledge. In this class I want to push myself to be curious and grow a passion for what I’m learning, so I can prosper in knowledge and overall growth.
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