There are different ways to notice ‘things’. Surprise is only one trigger. Going through the world with open eyes.
I notice when my children do something they didn’t before. I keep a child development diary where I collect what I notice about them. Noticing alone is surely valueable because it is accompanied by a warm feeling of parental proud. But it is also helpful when reading it later—e.g. when the next child reaches that age. It allows to put observations in perspective. Yes indeed this reduces the surpris of some of these later. But that is also a satisfactory feeling—to notice correlation.
Other people may notice different things. A physicist (or like minded) might notice how pieces move in the soup. Or how much wind leafing through a book causes. Or how knots seem to form automatically in cables and strings. Or how sometimes clothes collect in the sheet in the washing machine. Someone else notices how decisions are made by some groups and how it fails for others. How long it takes for decisions to settle. How variable participation is or how it feels to not being part of a decision.
Is this surprise? Is this curiosity about reality? Do some people have this more than others? Can such a mindset be acquired?
There are different ways to notice ‘things’. Surprise is only one trigger. Going through the world with open eyes.
I notice when my children do something they didn’t before. I keep a child development diary where I collect what I notice about them. Noticing alone is surely valueable because it is accompanied by a warm feeling of parental proud. But it is also helpful when reading it later—e.g. when the next child reaches that age. It allows to put observations in perspective. Yes indeed this reduces the surpris of some of these later. But that is also a satisfactory feeling—to notice correlation.
Other people may notice different things. A physicist (or like minded) might notice how pieces move in the soup. Or how much wind leafing through a book causes. Or how knots seem to form automatically in cables and strings. Or how sometimes clothes collect in the sheet in the washing machine. Someone else notices how decisions are made by some groups and how it fails for others. How long it takes for decisions to settle. How variable participation is or how it feels to not being part of a decision.
Is this surprise? Is this curiosity about reality? Do some people have this more than others? Can such a mindset be acquired?