Curiosity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/curiosity/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:25:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Curiosity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/curiosity/ 32 32 Habits for Creativity https://mind-at-work.com/habits-for-creativity/ Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:18:41 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6138 Socrates This essay is the fourth in the series "Good Habits." The discussion is based on my book of the same title. Creativity is a mental process for producing ideas that are both uncommon and uncommonly good, ideas that solve problems and resolve issues. Studies show that 95 percent of us have significant [...]

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]]> Curiosity’s Role in Saving America https://mind-at-work.com/curiositys-role-in-saving-america/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:56:43 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5439 In a recent essay titled "Our Urgent Need to Examine Ideas" I noted that in this age of constant, rapid, and unsolicited information, many ideas slip into our minds unexamined. Yet we tend to defend those uninvited ideas as conscientiously as we do ones we have produced through careful thought. I explained that there is [...]

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]]> Our Urgent Need to Examine Ideas https://mind-at-work.com/our-urgent-need-to-examine-ideas/ Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:50:51 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5421 In a recent essay I noted that critical thinking is a more reliable guide to behavior than emotion, provided it is controlled and directed toward truth. I added that the aim of critical thinking should not just be to evaluate other people's words and actions, but also, indeed foremost, to evaluate our own thoughts, words, and [...]

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]]> Ignorance in America https://mind-at-work.com/ignorance-america/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:54:59 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=889 Street interviews have been a staple on TV since Steve Allen’s original Tonight Show. One reason for their success is that they reveal the depth of people’s ignorance. Lately, more and more, it seems like a bottomless pit. I’m thinking of cases where people can’t name a single U.S. Senator or explain the term “Bill [...]

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