Jenny O'Dell

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102 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2019 last heard Jul 2019

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Life Kit · Why Travel? Find joy when you leave (or stay) home · 26 Jul 2019 podcast

It depends on your job, but you're probably working.

Like you have a routine where you get up at a certain time and you maybe take the same train and you go to the same place.

It's like, you know, maybe you haven't had a day in a long time where you were in your own neighborhood, but you weren't trying to work.

And so you didn't have that kind of framework.

So I just think I mean, I've just been surprised in my own experience where if you take what you're what you're trying to do on vacation, which is to not work and experience new things and you just do that at home, it will completely change the things that you notice and that you perceive.

You go outside and you're like, I don't even know what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for anything.

Then you will see anything.

Like, you'll see all of these things outside of the categories of what you're usually looking for.

I think that it's just enlarged my capacity to be surprised.

I think that's almost like a faculty that you exercise and it can be narrow or it can be wide and I think you can widen it on purpose.

Curiosity can open up new worlds to us.

It just becomes very quickly evident that I will never really get to the bottom of things that I'm observing.

And that is such a delightful feeling.

And it's so different from consuming a product.

It's also different from looking things up online where the answer is yes or no.

It's kind of the opposite of that.

It's like a seemingly simple point that opens on to kind of infinity as long as you're willing to go down that path.

I'm sort of addicted to the feeling of curiosity.

And so it's been really wonderful for me to find out that I can have that anywhere.

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