As far as I can tell, curiousity is a self-renewing resource, plain and simple. It got us out of the caves and off of the planet. So perhaps its a good thing.
On the other hand the same genetic predisposition, for that is clearly where this feature of the human machine originates from, causes people to answer the front door when they just know its the JWs, or to answer thephone when they have a perfectly functional answering machine - and aren't expecting any calls. It was the telephone thqat asked me to re-think my own knee-jerk reactions, that and dropping a glass of milk onthe floor.
The telephone invariably has some bureaucrat ont he other end wanting a detail for a form - on their own schedule. That I can do without. I don't screen calls so much as put the communication schedule inline with my own desires and strengths.
Did you ever notice the instant reactionyou have when just having droped something to try to catch it? Before it breaks or spills? Well, nine times out of ten, I managed to make the break or spill much worse by adding a hand or twon intothe equation. Not ony would the milk spill everywhere, but the glass would get knocked half-way across the room rather than gently (heh) landing at my feet - in one piece. I found it was labour-saving to let the milk spill, the glass drop, and the people stare, and hten after minimizing the whole event, to simply mop up the floor. No gymnastics or feats of incredible anti-dexterity. I'll leave that to the persons with egos attached to the dex/cons attributes and not their wis/int ones. (That's D&D talk for you neophytes meaning physical versus mental attributes essentially.)
Is curiousity valuable? Only when taken in hand and guided wisely.
