If I flip out, as I sometimes, um, rarely, do, could it be that this was too close to home?
Last year I was slipping “off-shoring,” “tipping point,” and “synergy” into my vernacular. But it was starting to sound forced and starting to get old when I came across a new catchy phrase.
Every shiur or podcast I listened to told me to be “curious.”
At first, I was surprised. I associate that concept with a little monkey wrapped in piles of pasta or eating a puzzle piece. The word curious didn’t really bring up many positive vibes for me, especially when you consider that curiosity killed the cat.
The more I listened, however, the more I realized that the word curious is being used nowadays in a totally different context. Take the man with the yellow hat out of the picture and you have a plain old adjective, defined as eager to know or learn something.
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