1236: Rediscovering Your Sense of Wonder with a Discovery Journal by Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci on Curiosity

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🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci shares his thoughts on rediscovering your sense of wonder with a discovery journal. Episode 1236: Rediscovering Your Sense of Wonder with a Discovery Journal by Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci on Curiosity Michael Mehlberg is an entrepreneur and certified agile project manager who specializes in productivity and organization systems. His blog, Modern da Vinci has been called "The Owners Manual to an Awesome Life" and helps high-achieving entrepreneurs master their life and business - crushing their goals, living their passion, and finding purpose, balance, and excellence in all they do. The original post is located here: https://www.moderndavinci.net/blog/2015/5/29/discovery-journal Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1236, rediscovering your sense of wonder with a discovery journal
0:06.9	by Michael Melberg of modernnavinci.net and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Tuesday,
0:11.7	welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast where I read to you from some of the
0:17.2	best blogs I can find and get permission from. For now let's get right to it and start optimizing
0:22.7	your life. Rediscovering your sense of wonder with the discovery journal by Michael Melberg of modernnavinci.net.
0:35.2	Avoidable as it may seem, at some point in every life's journey we transition to adulthood,
0:40.8	leaving behind one of the most important aspects of childhood, our sense of wonder. As children we
0:46.7	ask why and how about everything to everyone who will listen. Why does that teapot squeal?
0:53.4	How is that rainbow made? Why did that light bulb burn out? The endless questions flow until
0:58.8	parents frustrated by the sensation of falling into a bottomless pit of curiosity,
1:03.6	demand that we stop. We eventually relent, but we continue wondering. We continue wondering
1:09.5	until we get caught up in life and school, in friends. We keep questioning until we become preoccupied
1:15.5	with love and bills and child rearing. Then one day our own children begin questioning us asking why
1:22.6	until we too either demand they stop or admit we don't know everything. But we're adults now,
1:28.4	and we don't like to admit what we don't know. Here's the thing, it's time to admit what we don't know.
1:35.6	Why? Because admitting our ignorance opens the door to education, recognizing our inexperience lets
1:42.4	us breathe in a fresh perspective. The world is full of objects and adventures that are far too
1:47.7	easy to take for granted. Each has their own story to tell, and each can teach us something new.
1:53.3	Asking simple, childlike questions like why and how will bring back a sense of wonder that is
1:59.1	so critical to new knowledge and understanding. Of course not all questions are interesting to
2:04.1	everyone, that's okay. Those aren't worth our time because they won't inspire us to learn,
2:09.4	enforcing ourselves to learn is a sure way to forget. Uninteresting and unused knowledge
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