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Here's an interesting question: How curious are you? 这里有一个有趣的问题：你好奇心重吗？ As young children, we are endlessly curious about the world around us. We examine and explore everything. 在幼年时期，我们对周围世界充满了强烈的好奇心。在这个时期我们去探索着周围的一切. Creative professionals are insanely good at following their curiosity. They know what to look out for during the creative process. It's a skill you can master once you learn to respect your curiosity. Curiosity and creativity are never far apart. You need to be curious to identify problems worthsolving, and then come up with new solutions. 创造型的人极其善于遵循他们的好奇心.在创造过程，他们明确地知道在创造阶段所需要的东西.一旦你学会正视自己的好奇心，你也可以掌握这种能力。创造力和好奇心总是密不可分的。你需要保持好奇心从而去判定这个问题是否值得解决，之后再找出解决办法。 The importance of asking the right questions and following up with even more questions cannot be overemphasized when you want to solve difficult problems or to create something truly original. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. 提出正确的问题，甚至提出一些后续问题很重要，但是当你想要解决困难的问题或者创造一些新颖原创的东西时，这种重要性则不能被过度强调。提出正确的问题和给出正确的答案需要同样的技巧。 A naturally curious mind takes interest in a wide range of subjects to find connections to help solve everyday problems. When you are open to new ideas, the more you are likely to follow your curiosities, and the more you will be able to connect new information and discoveries with what you already know. 天然地充满好奇心的思维会通过寻找周围各个事物的联系来解决日常问题。当你面对一个新的事物，如果你越愿意遵循你的好奇心，那么你越能够将新的信息和发现与你已知的事物联系起来。 Einstein once said he had no special talent but was rather passionately curious. 爱因斯坦曾经说过自己并没有什么特殊才能，只是有强烈的好奇心。 All children are curious about the world and how it works. But for most, their curiosity is satisfied by simple, concrete answers that allow them to move on to other thoughts and emotions. But gifted children, he adds, “may not be satisfied with simple answers. These children often have a need to delve deeper to satisfy their advanced awareness and heightened curiosity. 孩子们都对周遭的世界以及世界的运行充满好奇。对于大多数孩子，当得到一些简单固化的答案时，他们就会停止对这件事物的好奇心，马上就被其他新的事物和情绪所吸引。他又说：“但是对于一些有天赋的孩子，他们的好奇心是不会被简单的答案所满足，他们往往需要深入钻研，以满足他们的超前意识和好奇心。” By nature children are curious, but as we grow up much of our inquisitiveness ebbs. Almost all children in their natural state ask lots of questions. That’s how they learn so much in the first five years of life. Part of what makes curiosity so valuable for our creativity is that it is a kind of “throwback” to childhood, before we had everything figured out and compartmentalized. 孩子们天性充满好奇，但是随着我们长大，我们的好奇心会逐渐衰退。几乎所有孩子在幼年时期都会问很多问题。这就是为什么他们能在出生几年内学会如此多的东西的原因。在我们分析解决好一切之前，好奇心对于创造力如此重要的部分原因是：好奇心能让我们回到类似体验幼年时期对世界的不停探索的阶段。 A classic example is Steve Jobs' curiosity for typefaces which led him to attend a seemingly useless class on typography and to develop his design sensibility. Later, this sensibility became an essential part of Apple computers and Apple's core differentiator in the marketplace. Creativity happens by making unexpected connections between existing ideas. 史蒂夫乔布斯对字体的探索可以作为一个经典例子。他最初对字体感兴趣于是便参加一个看似毫无用处的排版课程，然后发展了他的设计认知。之后，在市场上，这种设计认知成为苹果电脑和苹果公司的一个重要组成部分。创意来源于将两个已有的想法以一种意想不到的方式进行结合。 So what do you need to do? To spark new levels of creativity in your work, studies or daily life, you need to observe things around you, practice mindfulness, and step outside your comfort zone. 那你需要做什么呢？为了能能在你的工作学习或日常生活中产生更新的创意创造，你需要仔细观察周围事物，全神贯注练习正在从事的事情，并且要跳出自己的舒适区。 Your insatiable drive to create, learn, invent, explore, and observe deserves to have the same status as every other drive in your life. Give yourself permission to wonder what could be possible and make even the slightest move in that direction to find answers. The path to deep knowledge in any field requires you to look for questions that inspire answers you can't possibly predict. 人们应该像对待生活中的其他追求一样对待对创造，学习，发明，探索以及观察，要有无止尽的追求。给你自己定一个任务，去想想那些事情是有可能的，之后可以做一点点甚至很微小的尝试，朝着你定的那个方向去找寻答案。在任何领域，对深层次知识的探寻的道路，都需要你探索那些答案不可能被你预测到的问题。 Curiosity has been a major factor behind many scientific and technological discoveries and the advancement of human development. Curiosity is a human drive. It's never too late to starting focusing on developing curiosity instincts. Begin practicing mindfulness and be conscious of your immediate surroundings. Be curious about things you usually ignore. Don't take ordinary things for granted. 对事物的好奇心是很多科学技术发现以及人类发展超前性背后的一个重要因素。好奇心对于人类是一个重要的推动力。我们随时都可以开始专注对好奇心本能的培养。这需要做到开始全神贯注的练习，对你此刻所处的环境充满好奇。并且要对你通常忽略的事物产生好奇心，不要固守成规。 Take time to observe and ask questions. Don't just read and learn about your field of education. Explore other industries. Following your curiosity can lead to the breakthrough ideas you have been waiting for as a creative professional. You can only harness and make the most of curiosity if you recognize and accept the need to make timefor it. 学会花时间去观察并提出问题。不要局限于自己学习的相关领域，要不断拓展到其他领域。遵从你内心对事物的好奇，可能带给你一直等待的突破和发现。只有识别并接受自己的好奇心并且在上面花时间和功夫，你才能够控制和充分利用你的好奇心来完成未知的探索。 |
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