{"id":606,"date":"2019-01-22T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolinadiazruiz.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:33:18","slug":"curiosidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolinadiazruiz.com\/en\/curiosidad\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity can help you become smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Curiosity can make you smarter.<\/strong> How? It has been seen through scientific studies that curiosity can lead the brain to a state conducive to <a href=\"https:\/\/lamenteesmaravillosa.com\/la-curiosidad-nos-ayuda-a-aprender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn and retain any type of information<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">In very general terms, curious people learn better. But the intelligence I&#039;d like to focus on today is emotional intelligence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">Yeah. <strong>Being a curious person helps a lot to understand and accept emotions.<\/strong> When you feel stuck, try to observe what emotions you are experiencing. It is not the same as saying <em>&quot;I don&#039;t feel well&quot;<\/em> for example, look a little further and realize that <strong>This generic discomfort is perhaps anger, sadness, shame, or even simply tiredness. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recognizing and naming our feelings is exercising our emotional intelligence. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">Also, as simple as this may seem, <strong>Recognizing the nuances of what we feel and naming those distressing emotions gives us a way to validate our internal experience.<\/strong> And as the psychologist says <a href=\"https:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/article\/item\/what_happens_when_you_embrace_dark_emotions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth Kurland<\/a>, also has the added benefit of reducing its intensity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">That is, what we feel is no longer a mysterious and indescribable threat. By exploring our sensations and perceptions, we can simply identify and record them within a temporal framework.<strong> Go from <em>\u201cI feel bad and I don\u2019t know why\u201d<\/em> is far from <em>\u201cRight now I feel sad.\u201d<\/em> This second option is less disturbing\u2026<\/strong> After all, we&#039;ve all been sad before, and it wasn&#039;t the end of the world. The difference, often, lies in following our curiosity and not trying too hard to avoid feeling what we feel. As Kurland explains: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Being curious rather than fearing or rejecting (emotions) provides a better lens for understanding feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carolinadiazruiz.com\/en\/2018\/02\/20\/ansiedad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anxiety<\/a> and apprehension make us stay still. With doubts but without asking. However, curiosity invites us to try, to participate. It doesn&#039;t have to be a great desire that moves us, nor do we have to have a very clear purpose,<strong> In order not to get too anxious, sometimes we just need to pay attention to our curiosity. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">A while ago I wrote about how being curious can help us <a href=\"https:\/\/carolinadiazruiz.com\/en\/2017\/10\/17\/esta-bien-saber-pasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">be more creative<\/a> And it is precisely this curious attitude that can broaden our emotional understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">Since curiosity is about recognizing and exploring new experiences, beyond anticipating whether these experiences will be entirely pleasant or not, being curious about our own emotions is a good idea. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity can help you explore and understand your emotions in a different way. 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