How to overcome curiosity killers.
From Psychology Today
July 2, 2025
Curiosity is central to art making. It can be undertaken as a kind of adventure or as research in which we are curious to see what happens when we make some thing come into existence that has not ever existed before. The making of it will frequently bring up unexpected outcomes.
This article came into my newsfeed on July 2nd, and the author Jeff Wetzler, has done a great job of bringing a deft journalistic touch to a wealth of research evidence about curiosity with six clear ways curiosity is thwarted.
Jeff writes largely about curiosity about other people’s experience, and this is manifest in our encountering art made by other people. So in this sense, being open to art as insight into the experience of ‘the other’ intrinsically promotes diversity.
But personal arts practice as research may be understood to bring this insight into one’s own diversity.
The content is great call to embrace curiosity and I suggest viewing and doing art is a great way to nurture curiosity about others and the self. If one makes art outdoors, then the same curiosity may be nurtured regards the more-than-human world as well.
If you feel like you are in a state of writers block, or your curiosity to make art is diminished, the article may also have good advice as to possible causes and ways to unblock.
You can read the full article here on the original website and get access to other excellent articles by Jeff, or to view it on a separate page, click page 2 below. (Drop me a line if the pagebreak feature does not work.)
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