Đó là âm thanh một chút như một con mèo. Nó đẩy những kẻ xâm nhập không mong muốn hiệu quả hơn một con chó bảo vệ, nhưng nhẹ nhàng với trẻ em như một con thỏ trắng. Những gì bạn có xu hướng để làm, có ý thức hoặc vô thức, là mượn những đặc tính từ các động vật mà bạn biết. Không có gì sai với điều đó. Đối với con người chúng ta không thể thực hiện | 7 Curiosity Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson If you or I had been in Napoleon s shoes after his shattering defeat at Waterloo we might well have lapsed into a state of inward-looking depression if not despair. Not so Napoleon. Following his defeat he abdicated with the apparent intention of going into exile in America. At Rochefort however he found the harbour blockaded and he decided to surrender himself to the Royal Navy. He was escorted aboard HMS Bellerophon. It was a new experience for him to see the inside of a ship of the Royal Navy the instrument of France s defeat at Trafalgar a few years earlier. An English eyewitness on 33 The Art of Creative Thinking board noticed that he is extremely curious and never passes anything remarkable in the ship without immediately demanding its use and inquiring minutely into the manner thereof . The important thing is not to stop questioning said Einstein. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity of life of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. Such curiosity is - or should be - the appetite of the intellect. Creative thinkers have it because they need to be taking in information from many different sources. The novelist William Trevor for example sees his role as an observer of human nature You ve got to like human beings and be very curious he says otherwise he doesn t think it is possible to write fiction. Of course curiosity in this sense must be distinguished from the sort of curiosity that proverbially kills the cat. The latter implies prying into other people s minds in an objectionable or intrusive way or meddling in their personal affairs. True curiosity is simply the eager desire to learn and know. Such disinterested intellectual curiosity can become .
