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Tag: curiosity

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Latent Lollygagger: Caring is Sharing

May 10, 2022 Erin M. Bank

It’s relieving to think I don’t have to care about everything. That I, Erin, don’t have to have an opinion and honestly it won’t really matter. I don’t care enough to be informed about everything, meaning I’m not informed enough to have an opinion, meaning I’m not opinionated enough to express my views to anyone.

Tagged Balance, contradiction, curiosity, Perspective2 Comments
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Latent Lollygagger: Marriage

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 Erin M. Bank

Detaching the wedding from the marriage was a key turning point for me.

Tagged celebration, curiosity, Feminism, Judgment, Words1 Comment
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Latent Lollygagger: Normal

January 27, 2021 Erin M. Bank

This is all about setting our expectations: this is the one thing we can individually control for ourselves. Expecting the world to jump back to how it was is a futile exercise. It might seem comforting, but it’s delusional, and will lead to disappointment that always comes when expectations are not in line with reality.

Tagged change, covid, curiosity, Life Lessons, pandemic, Perspective1 Comment
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Latent Lollygagger: Compassion

January 6, 2021 Erin M. Bank

Compassion allows me to separate myself from these tendencies and reframe my motivation as understanding myself—being curious—rather than fixing myself. Compassion allows me to remember that I and everyone else are doing the best we can with what we have, and that there is no binary right and wrong.

Tagged anxiety, Compassion, curiosity, resolutionsLeave a comment
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Latent Lollygagger: Pattern Recognition

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 Erin M. Bank

I don’t want to lose my ability to find patterns. I do want to stop my brain from concluding that if I can’t find a pattern, I must be a failure or wrong.

Tagged cognitive dissonance, contradiction, curiosity, JudgmentLeave a comment
article, monthly theme, Non-fiction

Curiosity and Problem Solving

February 27, 2020 Erin M. Bank

This month's deep-dive essay into curiosity: linking it to how we solve problems. Now published on Medium: https://medium.com/@bankoferin/curiosity-in-problem-solving-916d38c833b4

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Latent Lollygagger: My Morning Shadow

February 25, 2020 Erin M. Bank

The shadow makes it hard to do anything, let alone be curious about why it’s hard to do anything. It knows that the minute I start questioning its existence, it will lose power and fade away. It pushes me so deeply into the swirl of everything, that it’s hard to separate myself from the shadow.

Tagged curiosity, depressionLeave a comment
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Latent Lollygagger Blog: Curiosity and Vulnerability

February 18, 2020 Erin M. Bank

The more I talked about my blog, and the more questions I answered about it, I became curious: what is this blog all about? This curiosity put me, almost accidentally, in a place of vulnerability.

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Latent Lollygagger: Internal Curiosity

February 11, 2020 Erin M. Bank

If I ask this inner critic, “What are you trying to say,” and really listen, I hear its fear, its desire to protect me from failure and rejection, and I can say to the voice, “Thank you for trying to protect me, but I’ve got this.” What is the “inner critic” part of the brain, if not a string of judgmental words?

Tagged curiosity, Judgment, PsychologyLeave a comment
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Latent Lollygagger: Curiosity and Problems

February 4, 2020 Erin M. Bank

Being curious about a problem opens space around it. It allows us to detach from it.

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