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Our Curious World | Ilaria Reitano | TEDxYouth@Bologna


[Music]
my TED talk today we’re going to be
about curiosity and I’ll talk about how
curiosity it’s an inner value we have
and now I’m gonna let you see a video
know why because it’s 5 o’clock in the
morning it’s too early the Sun hasn’t
come up yet because Sun comes up later
well the earth goes around and when it
turns a certain amount the Sun shows on
that horizon why this is the question we
should always ask ourselves why because
as I was saying me for this TED talk
it’s about curiosity why again because
curiosity it’s something we have inside
ourselves it’s an inner value we have
inside ourselves since we were children
and just as a little kid we saw before
she was always asking why to her father
because she was so curious about the Sun
about why they couldn’t go outside so I
bet that all of you when we were
children used to ask why to parents to
relatives to your brothers to your
sisters and you were so curious about
your passions you were fascinated by the
world by nature and by everything that
surrounded you so for example when your
mom used to cook a cake
you were there asking why are you doing
that in the cake in that way or you used
to ask your father why he chose a
particular car or you used to ask your
brother how to play the piano how to
draw a dinosaur for example so when
we’re children we have so many questions
but then what happens it happens that we
grow up we become adults and we have a
work you have children at home so then
you have bills to pay you have kids to
take from school you have so many things
to do that you forget to us this
incredible question that’s why and it’s
so easy to ask why because it’s
something natural that it’s inside
ourselves and it’s incredible
that we have this inner quality we all
are talented because we’re all couriers
so now I’m gonna ask you a question and
this question is why is hippopotamus
milk pink and not white
this question may sing easy may seem
stupid but it’s a question it’s a
curiosity and I don’t know how many of
you know the answer I’ll tell it later
but now I’m gonna tell your story and
this story will help us do a journey
that will bring us to get back this
curiosity that some of us have lost
because we have so many things to do
that we forget to us this question so
when I was a little kid I used to lose
so many things at elementary school for
example hats sweaters socks so I used to
go to Ella to them this box coalesced
and found and I knew that everything was
right there inside and I and things I
thought I lost were all there inside
there so today I’m gonna tell you this I
told you this story because I’m gonna
tell you this incredible thing we all
have inside ourselves this box collapsed
and found and inside our box that box
there is Korea
and if some of us have lost this
curiosity now imagine you have kids in
your keys in your hands and you have to
unlock the lost-and-found in that way
curiosity that curiosity that is inside
there will spread across your body
across your soul across your minds and
you’ll get back all those questions you
have since we were children and so
you’ll be like this boy curious and
curious about everything and just as
this little boy there are so many
stories of people who lived their life
because moved by curiosity and today I’m
gonna tell you this three different
stories they are apparently different
because they’re all connected by
curiosity the first story I’m gonna tell
you it’s about a boy this boy when he
was five years old was a home and so on
a shelf some CDs and they were classical
music CDs and nobody ever told him to
listen to those CDs because his parents
were and passionate about music he
listened to the CDs and he got so amazed
by classical music that essence after
some months he asked his parents that he
wanted to have to take singing lessons
because he wanted to become a tenor and
nowadays he’s one of the most important
tenors were white and think about if
this boy instead of listening to those
CDs would have just stayed on the couch
watching television without asking
himself why and I was listening to the
interview where he said this story and
it was so amazing that a man is does a
work because moved by curiosity I find
it so fascinated as I find fascinated so
second story I’m going to tell you the
second story
gonna tell you it’s about the genius and
when I say the genius I talk about
Leonardo da Vinci he was a mathematician
an architect’s a sculpture a Kurtzman he
was practically everything and in his
writings he wrote that he was moved by
curiosity because he loved nature he
loved what what’s surrounding him and I
bet he’s the only one in the world ever
that never locked the lost and found we
have in our body and for example he did
so many inventions that when I went to
this museum called Leonardo 3 in Milan
they’re all his inventions exposed and
for example I had the opportunity in the
workshop to do the the bridge and it was
amazing to do something that he
projected as it is amazing that nowadays
we take planes every day we go to the
Japan to Canada we go everywhere because
he was the first one that interested in
birds in flight in how flight goes
because he was interested in this he was
moved by curiosity asked why he wanted
to find a solution to everything that he
loved and this thing it’s so amazing if
you think about it all his life was
moved by curiosity by the will to be
fascinated by nature and by what
surrounded him the third story I’m gonna
tell you it’s about a person a very
important person and this person I’m
gonna tell you about the story it’s me
so today I’m here talking to you about
curiosity because I believe that what
moves me every day it’s this value if I
if when I do things when I study when I
watch movies when I read I do it because
I like it I do it because I wants to
deepen that
it’s knowledge I have and just as this
quote of Albertus and says am neither
clever not especially gifted i’m only
very very curious this means that we are
all talented and one of one each one of
us have a talent and this talent is
being curious we all here have asked why
once once and we’re curious we we have
this thing inside our eyes we want to
know more we’re all here today because
you’re here to listen to my idea to the
other ideas because you are curious to
know about us and this is incredible it
means you’re led by your passions and
what I like our world to be it’s a world
where our arising it’s curiosity it’s a
world where all human beings when do
when they work when they study when when
they do everything they do it because
they like it they do it because they’re
passionate about it because they love
what they do
and this research of happiness this
research research of curiosity of
happiness it’s what I think today should
move us and from this day on if all of
us here today will be moved by curiosity
our world would be certainly more
curious more developed more happy so
keep asking yourself why keep asking
others why have questions ask don’t
worry about it be always active and like
causally spread across the world by
asking why in conclusion what I want to
say it’s this do you remember the
question I said I asked before this one
why is hippopotamus milk pink and not
white
if you remember it I wanted to I want to
tell you them the answer the answer is
that in the hippopotamus milk there’s a
little block if there is blood so
instead of pink instead of white sorry
it’s pink
and now you have you know something more
and you how you you you were curious
about my answer and so this talk worked
and you’ll keep asking yourself why for
everything that surrounds you and this
will help the world to have this new
horizon and this new horizon should be
curiosity thank you
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