Reflection to “"How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries" by Adam Savage.
Curiosity is a trait not many can possess. I think that to be curious one needs to be very open minded and able to have a good stance or understanding of themselves and their surroundings. There is now a trend that people normally spend time in their own circle of friends, who most likely think, eat, talk and act the same. They do not have any knowledge about what goes on with other cultures, leaving them somewhat socially impaired for certain things that they should know. Even the simplest of questions, for instance, “Why does the baby grasp onto things the way he does?” can lead to discoveries that one may not have imagined to have. Through such curiosities, famous psychologists like Piaget and Philosophers like Kant were able to answer the most fundamental questions of child development - widely studied now. Furthermore, Savage points out that even the “simplest questions could carry you out to the edge of human knowledge” because apparently there is no end to the questions that humans ask (1:20).
Although some may argue that not every person has the capacity to discover something big out of one finding or question. The reality is, how Savage put it, “we are all bags of meat and water. We all start with the same tools” (6:43). A poor child living in a small town in the Philippines is born with the same “tools” that a child in an apartment in Manhattan is. Their curiosity comes from there brain and intellect, as well as how they perceive the smallest of things. For example, a well known activist Malala Yousafzai is successful because of her push to strive regardless of what the circumstances are like. No one had pushed her to do what she did-it was an inner drive, it was curiosity. A curiosity in which the world saw the insights of what life is like under the Talibans. Moreover, major discoveries such as electricity, computers and trains all began with simple ideas. Every idea is worth sharing because there is always a chance that, that idea is the world’s next biggest discovery from which many could benefit.
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