Child's Curiosity: A Myth? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00This thing about the natural curiosity of a child is a fool's concept.

00:06You know of what the sentinelies people did to the American writer.

00:10Why was he attacked?

00:11Do not come near us.

00:12Do not attack him.

00:13Man is not curious at all.

00:15Had those tribal people been curious,

00:18they would have welcomed an outsider on the island.

00:21They would have said, where do you come from?

00:23What's the news?

00:24What's the world outside like?

00:25If somebody comes over to my place,

00:28we do not wear clothes.

00:31And we are not at all interested in knowing,

00:33not this fellow who is wearing his face and his shoulders.

00:37So, please, get rid of this notion that man is actually curious

00:41or that a child is actually curious.

00:43We are not curious.