Brian Grazer’s book – A Curious Mind – makes a point that I hadn’t considered before.
Curiosity has a negative connotation in our culture. And it isn’t accidental.
People in power have always found curiosity threatening. The Adam and Eve parable is the oldest example – the moral being that curiosity leads to suffering.
Curiosity also killed the cat.
Even in everyday language, when we describe something as “curious,” we mean it’s an oddity. A little weird. Other than normal.
It makes sense when you think about it. Curiosity asks why things are the way they are. It doesn’t take things for granted. That’s challenging to any established order.
I’d never noticed this bias.
Now I can’t unsee it.
A Learning a Day 