All kids have the essential need to create, learn and explore new things. They are born with a natural great curiosity.
I define the word curiosity here as: 'the hunger to learn and the hunger to experience new things'. In which hunger isn't only a physical hunger but a mental one as well. It's unnecessary to teach a child to ask for food, it cries for it from the very first moment it left its mother's womb. Likewise my parents didn't have to teach me to explore the world around me. I knew how to do that instantaneously.
All infants are born without any inhibitions or conditioning. When they are hungry, they cry for food as loud as they can and when they start to explore, they do that without seeing any danger or limitations. Besides curiosity, we are also born with a strong urge to create. These two things together are essential to grow. Not only for a child growing up, it is also essential for all of us no matter where we are in our walks of life.
While most of us still feel creative and curious, most of us don't experience it as crucial anymore. And it is exactly that notion of essentiality that can make the difference for you. So If you still want to progress in life it is absolutely imperative to keep learning, keep exploring and keep creating. Because if you stop doing that you basically stop growing other than just growing old. George Bernhard Shaw captured this so well when he said: "We don't stop playing because we grow old we, grow old because we stop playing."
All successful people in any society or any field have a striking commonality, they all have an almost insatiable hunger to create, to learn and to explore and they very rarely feel old.
Let me know if you would like to see my take on one of your favorite quotes.
"Be inspired and you shall inspire" ~ JD
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