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There is so much packed through the wrist and into the hand it's insane. You got muscles, tendons, bones, veins, arteries, and nerves, all bottle necked through about a 2'' x 1'' opening.
And not only that, but think about how strong your hands are, and yet how delicate and precise they can be.
It's cray cray.
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As T. Alexander Puutio, Ph.D., who teaches organizational performance and leadership at Harvard and Columbia, stresses in a post on Psychology Today, there are many benefits of staying curious as you age.
For example, older adults who “remain intellectually adventurous maintain better cognitive functioning and enjoy lower dementia risk than their less curious peers.”
What’s more, novel experiences stretch your perception of time, so you feel like you live longer and more vividly.
Not only that, but curiosity also predicts “greater meaning in life and higher psychological well-being across cultures.”
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Meanwhile, Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D., the author of ‘Paradoxical Strategies in Psychotherapy,’ notes that curiosity improves cognitive functioning while also helping your mind work more logically and efficiently.
Moreover, staying curious about the world can also boost your confidence, self-esteem, sense of pride, purpose, and life direction.
“Virtually all of us are endowed with a sense of adventure. And so we’re attracted to, and motivated to engage in, what’s novel or new. That’s how, ongoingly, we’re able to take in what previously we weren’t conscious of. As a result, we start to recognize what may still remain outside our awareness, which can incite us to continue our pursuit of knowledge and understanding on an ever-deepening level,” Seltzer writes on Psychology Today.
“Furthermore, as we’re driven to indefinitely expand our knowledge, we become interested in related questions not previously considered. And that prompts us to seek out fresh experiences to obtain information that now draws our curiosity. Needless to say, this well-nigh perpetual venture serves to enrich our lives and make them more meaningful.”
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Many animals can run faster that we do, but as far as distance goes we are unmatched.
Our ancestors used to practice persistance hunting.
“Persistence hunting is believed to have been one of the earliest hunting strategies used by humans.”.
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No Olympic sprinter has ever had a Morton's foot (instead conforming to the standard downhill toes).
However, statues from Ancient Greece (as well as later Roman statues, Michelangelo's David, Venus de Milo, Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and the Statue of Liberty) all portray Mortons feet as it was considered an ideal of beauty.
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When you’ve read through all of these intriguing facts, we’d like to hear from you, Pandas. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments at the very bottom of this post.
How do you continue to stay curious about the world, no matter how many responsibilities and other things you have going on in your life? What are the weirdest things you’ve learned about the human body that sound fake but are completely true? What do you do to accept the world for what it is, not what you think it should be? Tell us all about it.
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Here is an article about it.
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I assumed we were all cookie-cutter, like the anatomy posters. Then, I went to a cadaver lab, for school.
I saw a body with a bicep with 3 heads (making it a tricep) and 2 heads on the tricep (making it a bicep)
Some people have extra organs (extra kidneys).
I had just assumed... (it also puts evolution into a more real context).