How practicing curiosity could help the world around you (with Joe Hanson)

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  Ted audio collective, you're listening to how to be a better human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  So one of my favorite things in the world is talking to scientists.

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  Over the past couple years, I've gotten to talk to a variety of researchers across all sorts of different disciplines, and I think that my biggest surprise has been that there is no such thing as a boring topic.

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  Right?

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  Like someone studies something like sharks or volcanoes or sex.

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  You know, it's gonna be interesting.

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  But then when I talk to a scientist who studies something that I would initially consider very boring, like sand, it turns out that the really fascinating part about that is then who is the person who spends years of their life trying to understand sand?

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  Right.

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  How can you be the most passionate person about sand in the entire world?

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  That ends up being fascinating and hilarious and amazing.

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  And I get to ask them about that and discover why it is that they think this thing that I think is boring is actually so amazing.

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  And then I often end up being convinced.

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  All right, Doctor Sand, I see you.

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  So, while I'm not personally a scientist at all, I was an english major.

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  I wasn't a scientist.

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  But I do really admire that curiosity that scientists approach the world with.

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  I think there's something really beautiful about trying to find answers to questions that no one's asked before and then to share those answers with everyone else.

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  I love that.

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  And I wonder how we can all approach the world and each other with that kind of curiosity.

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