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Curiosity is a muscle — most people let it atrophy
💡 Deliberate, everyday curiosity is the raw material that keeps an interesting person supplied with ideas.
For De Bono, the raw fuel of being interesting is curiosity — a genuine, active interest in the world. Interesting people notice things others walk past. They wonder why a thing is the way it is, how it might be different, what would happen if. Bored people, by contrast, have stopped asking.
Crucially, he treats curiosity as a deliberate habit, not a mood. You can decide to be curious about a road sign, a stranger's job, the design of a spoon. The act of asking questions about ordinary things stocks your mind with observations and connections — the very raw material that makes conversation rich.
He warns that adults suppress curiosity to seem competent: asking questions can feel like admitting ignorance. But the interesting person reclaims the child's freedom to wonder aloud, converting everyday attention into a constant supply of things worth talking about.
Source: How To Be More Interesting — Edward De Bono