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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

4060: Rediscovering Your Sense of Wonder with a Discovery Journal by Michael Mehlberg on Personal Reflection

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4060: Michael Mehlberg explores how adulthood often dulls our natural curiosity and sense of wonder, and suggests that reclaiming it starts with asking more questions. By keeping a discovery journal to capture and investigate those questions, listeners can cultivate continuous learning, deepen their understanding of the world, and enrich their daily experiences. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://michaelmehlberg.com/blog/2015/5/29/discovery-journal Quotes to ponder: "It's time to admit what we don't know." "Recognizing our inexperience lets us breath in a fresh perspective." "It is as important to seek answers as it is to find those questions that inspire us." Episode references: Evernote: https://evernote.com/ Bullet Journal: https://bulletjournal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Optimal Living Daily. Rediscovering your sense of wonder with a discovery journal by Michael

0:30.6

Melberg of Michael Melberg.com. And your narrator, Justin Malick, reading you articles to bring a bit more

0:36.7

inspiration, motivation,

0:38.3

and happiness to your day, a little daily practice that compounds over time. So with that,

0:44.1

let's keep compounding as we optimize your life.

0:51.3

Rediscovering your sense of wonder with a discovery journal by Michael Melberg of Michael Melberg.com

0:57.1

Avoidable as it may seem, at some point in every life's journey we transition to adulthood,

1:04.1

leaving behind one of the most important aspects of childhood, our sense of wonder.

1:09.2

As children, we ask why and how about everything to everyone who will listen.

1:15.0

Why does that teapot squeal? How is that rainbow made? Why did that light bulb burn out?

1:20.4

The endless questions flow until parents, frustrated by the sensation of falling into a bottomless pit

1:25.5

of curiosity, demand that we stop.

1:28.4

We eventually relent, but we continue wondering.

1:31.7

We continue wondering until we get caught up in life and school and friends.

1:36.2

We keep questioning until we become preoccupied with love and bills and child rearing.

1:42.1

Then one day, our own children begin questioning us asking why until we, too,

1:47.0

either demand they stop or admit we don't know everything. But we're adults now, and we don't like to

1:52.5

admit what we don't know. Here's the thing. It's time to admit what we don't know. Why? Because

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