Curiosity can be said to be the tendency to ask or learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.
Curiosity can be in both ways i.e positive or negative, positive in the sense that what you're eager to know or learn actually yield a good result, and negative in the sense that the end result was bad.
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For example, some years ago when my friends and I use to go out for swimming, hmm trust me it use to be very interesting. swimming is fun, I wish I could go back to it soon but then that year, I have a friend that's so good at it, to the extent that we call him a fish.
For the people that knows about swimming would know a portion of the pool that's called "danger." This part of the pool is the deepest, a beginner or learner is not allowed or advised to try that region. Because you'll definitely regret it, that's even if the person is alive to regret his or her actions.
So this friend of mine can do both danger and the normal size that we beginner usually stay to catch our own kind of fun. Almost everyday I do disturb my friend that he should teach me how to swim, finally he agreed one day, so we went to the pool.
Normally in my area, the pool is usually crowdy during weekends so we fix a working day, we were still in secondary then and it was during holiday, so we were both free, getting there we started the training as soon as possible without wasting time.
Due to the fact that I'm a fast learner, I had start getting the basics already but suddenly the unexpected happened. I stood beside the pool just chilling, my friend who's also my trainer walk by and push me inside the pool, you say that's wickedness right? according to him it's part of the training but I didn't see that way at all, because God really saved me that day maybe I could have died, although he was still the one that came to rescue me inside the pool where I was already drinking water like I haven't tased water for days.
The funniest part was that I couldn't shout for help because I was going up and down in the water. Inshort he came to the rescue but ever since then, I told him I'm not learning anything again. That was the last time I visit the swimming pool.
Maybe I can later develop interest in learning again, but for now I'm still afraid of moving close to the swimming pool. All my curiosity about learning swimming died at the spot.
On the other hand, there is something about me, if there's anything I love or wish to know, I'll make sure I go all out for that thing regardless of what it will cost me, I won't do anything bad to get it though.
Even though how I joined hive was somehow funny, it's a story I've shared several times so I won't be doing that again today.
At the initial stage, I was not interested at all despite how much my onboarder tried to teach and encourage me I was still not interested not until I was convinced personally of giving it a try.
That point that I was actually ready, even my onboarder knew he was in trouble lols, because I do disturb him every now and then, whenever I have an issue, I'll quickly rush to him, and thank God, he's always ready to help.
Within few months I have known alot of things, before I got to know about newbie initiative my Rep was more than the minimum required Rep. So I couldn't join yet I already know almost all the things a newbie should know with the eagerness of wanting to learn and know more everyday. For me, one of my watchword is to learn everyday, leaning never ends. So we keep learning, non stop.
Have been able to successfully onboard some set of people, which I think it's something good.
I love that habit of wanting to know more and more, it's one I can't do without.