Intellectual Curiosity and Wedding and Party Music

by Robbie Schlosser · 1 comment

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Today it happened again!  My curiosity did me in again.  Like the proverbial cat.

Curious GeorgeIntellectual curiosity” might sound pretty arrogant, I suppose, but it feels right.  Maybe just call it “Curiosity”.

It’s the urge to think about ideas.  The willingness to follow our nose and try to figure things out.

I just wonder about all the ideas swirling around me, and my appetite for more information knows no bounds.

Today’s mail brought Foreign Affairs, and I felt like saying “Oboy, reading this is going to be so interesting” and “Oh Geez, I haven’t finished the New York Times Magazine yet”.

Does this dilemma happen to you, too?  I keep thinking I want to know more, understand better, but there’s too little time to cram it all in.

I’m an impulse buyer for thoughtful opinions.  So every year I subscribe to a few more periodicals and cancel a few others.  This year’ revolving entries are the NYTimes (Sundays), The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic.

And the perennial MacWorld and MacLife — they’re always on my list.  Recent years have seen the the Wilson Quarterly, Hoover DigestLapham’s Quarterly, and many more.

Magazines subscriptions are small potatoes.  Email newsletters really kill me.  I already receive more personal and business email than I can handle.

Nevertheless, every week I sign up for a few more free newsletters that look fascinating and useful, and every Monday morning I unsubscribe to at least as many.  So much for my intellectual curiosity!

Despite the frustration, I’m glad for this torrent of ideas.  I believe that the more wide-ranging information I acquire, the more effective and creative I’ll be at helping people plan music for their weddings and parties.

Still, I wonder:  Is it just me, or are we ALL suddenly deluged with a tsunami of more information than was ever available?  Is this becoming a world of “TMI”?

Does it make us struggle to restrain our intellectual curiosity?

What a wonderful, frustrating way to live!  How about YOU?  How do you handle your intellectual curiosity?

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Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.

Oh, Robbie, it’s a never ending battle.  For my professional needs, I read tons of tables of contents (yes, really) to ferret out those gems that will help my research, my clients, or are written by my friends (which usually fit the prior two categories, as well).  For my personal wants (which may actually be physiological needs at this point), I read three or four newspapers a day, six or seven magazines a week, and one to three books weekly.

So, I can assure you that I know my mailperson (who has been a woman for the past decade) very well.  And, the staff at my PO Box even better.

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