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How Curiosity Killed The Cat (But Made Him A Lot Richer.)
Curiosity is a fickle mistress…
The Sunday scaries were setting in.
As day turned into night, it was time to celebrate America’s other pastime… watching tv.
AN UNHEALTHY AMOUNT OF IT!!
(Eat your heart out, productivity wizards)
And much like the soccer Mom in the minivan, drunk on indecision, clogging up the drive-thru called life, I too was overwhelmed with choices about what to watch.
I changed. I turned. I moaned. I groaned. And I was comfortably uncomfortable until it hit me.
I saw the three words that made my brain come alive.
The secrets of…. (scroll to the bottom to see the show I watched) And Boom! I was instantly swept into the inescapable pull of curiosity. Human nature won again.
Curiosity is many things…
It was the fall of Eve; it is the killer of cats, and it's the current conqueror of conscience.
We are fatally attracted to curiosity, and whether we realize it or not, it guides our decisions.
In fact, if you understand curiosity, you can use it to write better headlines, connect with more people, improve your income and become more interesting in your…
