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Curiosity is self‐inquiry, questioning who I am and what I do. It is the opening up of possibility. Gadamer (1975, p. 266) writes:

The opening up and keeping open of possibilities is only possible because we find ourselves deeply interested in that which makes the question possible in the first place. To truly question something is to interrogate something from the threat of our existence, from the centre of our being.

Curiosity is fundamental to the creative life and yet many practitioners are locked into habitual patterns of practice. Often, when things get overly familiar, we take them for granted and get into a habitual groove. Curiosity is turning over pebbles, wondering what lies on the other side, while open to the possibilities of viewing the same thing from different perspectives. Curiosity helps us pay attention as if the experience is new.

Loori (2005, p. 74) writes:

when we truly pay attention, we see each object or situation for the first time‐ and it always seems fresh and new, no matter how many times we’ve encountered it before. We break free of our habitual ways of seeing.