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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Curiosity is not a guarantee of intelligence, but a lack of curiosity is the opposite. Curiosity is far easier to probe in smalltalk and interviews without self awareness filters. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does one spark curiosity?

[–] CascadianBeam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ask questions. Either people will or won’t engage but if you have any credibility with them, they have a little bit of buy in to listen to your shit. Then you just might get them curious.

Just the other day I was walking through our local VA campus and I was curious about why every roof of the buildings built in the 1920s has a bunch of little house looking vent things on the top. I think I know the answer but I’m still curious about it.

Probably not a good example of something to spark curiosity with, but you never know what will.