Curiosity is one of the themes that runs through Nectar of Time. Below is everything in the Nectarium that touches on it.
Where it comes up 4
Within this theme 13
Concepts 3
- Compound Curiosity
Tamir's main prescription: curiosity is the 'compound interest' of the mind. The right kind isn't scattered novelty-seeking. It's relentless, uncomfortable curiosity about where you're…
- Portal to the Unknown
The episode's anchor theme: moments when a doorway into the unfamiliar opens. Some people jump through, others wait for the next one. Nev's rule is to always walk through, and she says the…
- Wonder
From Alan Watts: the feeling that ordinary things are odd, uncanny and highly improbable. Watts calls it a special enlightenment and says it is 'not a disease'. Tamir and Ian offer wonder…
Quotes 5
Curiosity. That's how you get compounding interest for your brain, and how to fix your operating system is curiosity.
For those humans who want to change, they just have a deep desire to shift. That fear is always trumped by curiosity.
It's easy to be curious when things are easy. It's difficult to be curious about the things that make us uncomfortable.
I would rather experience something that I've never quite seen the like of before, even if it's like a six out of ten, than see another romantic comedy that's nine out of ten.
To have curiosity is the superpower of the current paradigm that we're in.
Insights 2
- Curiosity, not courage, carries you through
The fear of the unknown never disappears, but for people who truly want to change, curiosity outweighs it. This is the curiosity children have before adults teach them that everything is…
- Real curiosity is not distraction
Being drawn to shiny things like a Bahamas reel or an attractive person is the easy, scattered kind of curiosity. The kind that compounds is relentless curiosity about the uncomfortable…
Practices 2
- Walk through the portal, led by curiosity
When a full-body impulse or intuitive knowing points toward the unknown, trust it and go, letting curiosity rather than the absence of fear move you. Tamir adds that you plant the idea and…
- Turn curiosity on your convictions
Point curiosity, deliberately and relentlessly, at where you might be wrong, at your own convictions and at other people's. Examine each part of your life and past decisions instead of…
Stories 1
- A mother's 'no, that's dangerous'
Nev remembers her mother's intense fear response, a constant 'No, no, no, that's dangerous'. She uses it to show how childhood curiosity gets punished and dulled as we grow older.