#curb your

[wack-ashimself]

One of the heads of Seinfeld saved a man possibly from death row...

Curb your enthusiasm. Larry david.

Basically, shot a scene for his show during a baseball game. A guy who was accused of murder said he was at that game, but had no proof. Outtakes/deleted scenes from that show proved the guy was there, and could not have been the killer. That’s fucking crazy!

[bubbycraft]

curb your expectation of sinking. I tried to do a series of not sinking at all. lasted 4 hours lol

[smithqjohns]

When you're always late for work so you need to use the carpool lane.

[athenacassowary-blog]

‘Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction bought it back’

Curiosity gets people into trouble often; but if the answer is found after all the trouble, the satisfaction that the answer gives is well worth the trouble to get it.?

“Addiction is the continued use of a mood altering substance  or behaviour despite adverse dependency consequences.”

We are hardwired with the desire to learn and explore the world. The human psyche is marked by a lifelong tendency to seek and acquire information. Curiosity increases with one’s expertise in a particular domain. It derives from “information gap”―the difference between what you know and what you want to know.

Humans be so curious nosy..! Indeed, the value of information can be measured by the extent to which a piece of information reduces our uncertainty about the world. That is, information could be measured by the degree to which something was surprising.

Unfortunately young people don't realise just how much anyone suffering from addiction regrets the day they gave into their curiosity and began experimenting in risky ways.

So..

Is curiosity a form of the continued use of a mood altering behaviour irrespective of harmful dependency to consequences?

Or..

Do people engage in curiosity such that harmful dependencies in consequences arise, yet they continue to engage in curiosity?

As people are we looking at a world where knowledge holds the upper most hand in all aspects; or has the sense of competition become an addiction? Information as we know it is the trigger to all communication. We start to communicate to express and convey something.

“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”Being so dependent on our devices is unhealthy. Some people develop habits that are so serious they need professional help to stop using social media or smartphones. We are vulnerable to becoming addicted to our information sources because of an evolutionary development in our brains. We have a basic drive to get information quickly. Dopamine, the pleasure chemical that is connected to drug addiction, is released in certain brain cells when we get relevant information. Because getting information is pleasurable, getting addicted to it is possible.All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. - Reinhold NiebuhrAs humans evolved we needed to make important decisions all the time just to survive. Making the best choices that would give us the greatest chance of survival required having relevant information. Our little dopamine hit encourages us to seek out relevant information. With tech devices and such readily available sources of information and our evolutionary drive, we become vulnerable to getting hooked on informationInformation is a mood altering "substance," but does it lead to adverse consequences? I would argue that information generally leads to improved consequences. Indeed, it is because it helps us improve our lives that we seek to acquire so much of it. Since it leads to beneficial consequences, then the constant desire to use it can not be considered an addiction. Therefore, in most cases, you cannot be addicted to information.

Some see this as information abundance, others as information overload. The advent of digital information and with it the era of big data allows humans access to unlimited information. But it is also creating for many the sense that we are being overwhelmed by information.Example- I buy a different brand of cereal every week. (The dream consumer)However, when I enter the cereal aisle, I’m faced with a wall of boxes vying for my attention, starbursts popping off every box, sales signs waving above my head, red and yellow price tags lining every shelf, a sea of promotional decals spattering the floor.  (The Big R.E.D monster of needs)It’s information overload at its most intense.

Information has finally been set free.Where is this heading..? Maintaining innocence is perhaps the goal, to be like a child and discover life anew every day, a fresh perspective that keep one alive and vital, not jaded or cynical, not eating the forbidden fruit, not consuming from the tree of knowledge is perhaps the true secret. But then again, is that in our hands? ‘No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.’‘Don’t be too smart’ is a good adage, perhaps concentrating only in a few skills instead of throwing the net wide, to be a hedgehog instead of a fox (or is that the other way around?), to focus and limit one’s wide reading or search for more experiences or skills, maybe the threshold has been reached that the urge for the new is no longer an innocent urge but a cynical striving for more and more like gluttony, unable to stop eating or stop stuffing things into one’s mouth, the innocence of a child’s curiosity already lost and replaced with debauchery and depravity. Curiosity is an addiction that needs to be controlled; an urge that translates into a love of food, wine, book reading, travel and search for new experiences, spending money and feeling satiated after the momentary lust is quenched.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.   -Carl Jung

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