確定您的“好奇心類型”是完成更多工作的關鍵

How do dogs accurately anticipate what time their owners will be home from work each day? Is sugar truly more addictive than some illegal drugs? And does Reddit serve as a forum for lively debate on grammar and syntax?

狗如何準確預測他們的主人每天下班回家的時間？糖真的比一些非法藥物更容易上癮嗎？Reddit是不是作為一個論壇，就“語法和句法”展開激烈的辯論？

Don’t click those links.

不要點擊這些鏈接。

Instead, notice how your mental state may have changed after reading those sentences.

相反，注意在讀完這些句子後，你的精神狀態可能發生了什麼變化。

Curiosity sits along your brain’s reward pathway, and when an opportunity to consume new information presents itself, the neurotransmitter dopamine is released.

好奇心位於你大腦的獎勵途徑上，當一個消費新信息的機會出現時，神經遞質多巴胺就會釋放出來。

This is why you love going down a rabbit hole of distractions at the office, even when it might result in time management consequences.

這就是為什麼你喜歡在辦公室分心的兔子洞，即使這可能會導致時間管理的後果。

It’s a slippery slope, and we know shiny object syndrome can quickly derail good intentions.

這是一個很滑的斜坡，我們知道閃亮物體綜合症可能很快就會破壞良好的意圖。

(In fact, distraction and dopamine are so intoxicating that Silicon Valley has seen a rising trend known as “dopamine fasting”.

(事實上，分心和多巴胺是如此令人陶醉，以至於硅谷出現了一種被稱為“多巴胺禁食”的上升趨勢。

Related: 3 Ways to Foster Curiosity in Your Company (and Why You Should Care)

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But an equal threat to your next entrepreneurial pursuit is to feel uninspired, deflated, or overwhelmed; you continuously need lightbulb moments and great ideas to charge forward.

但是，對你的下一個創業追求同樣的威脅是感到缺乏靈感、洩氣或不知所措；你不斷地需要電燈泡時刻和偉大的想法來向前衝刺。

It takes practice to stay inspired without getting distracted, but it can be done.

保持靈感而不分心需要練習，但這是可以做到的。

Here’s how to leverage curiosity to your advantage in three steps.

下面是如何利用好奇心為你帶來優勢的三個步驟。

1. Know the truth about dopamine and productivity
2. 1.瞭解多巴胺和生產力的真相
3. Scientists long thought that dopamine was released only when we got what we wanted.
4. 長期以來，科學家們認為只有當我們得到我們想要的東西時，多巴胺才會釋放出來。
5. But a wide-ranging study found that this release of feel-good chemicals actually happens before we’ve reached our goals.
6. 但是一項廣泛的研究發現，這種感覺良好的化學物質的釋放實際上是在我們達到目標之前發生的。
7. Feel-good chemicals are deployed to help you take action and motivate you once a target has been defined.
8. 一旦確定了目標，就會使用感覺良好的化學物質來幫助你採取行動並激勵你。
9. Related: 5 Ways Childlike Curiosity Can (and Should) Inspire the Entrepreneurial Mindset
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11. That said, curiosity-inducing stimuli create different reactions in each of us.
12. 也就是說，引起好奇心的刺激會在我們每個人身上產生不同的反應。
13. Todd Kashdan is a psychologist whose research delineates five dimensions of curiosity, as well as four "curiosity types." In his research, some participants were curious about many different ideas and hobbies, while others preferred to be passionate about just a few topics.
14. 託德·卡什丹(Todd Kashdan)是一位心理學家，他的研究描繪了好奇心的五個維度以及四種“好奇心類型”。在他的研究中，一些參與者對許多不同的想法和愛好感到好奇，而另一些人則傾向於對少數主題充滿激情。
15. Others still are most enamored by human interaction, both online and offline.
16. 其他人仍然最喜歡在線和線下的人際互動。
17. The takeaway? Discern what does and does not make you curious and use that knowledge to your advantage. Drum up a dopamine release and take positive strides forward.
18. 外賣？辨別什麼能讓你好奇，什麼不能讓你好奇，並利用這些知識為你帶來優勢。鼓起多巴胺釋放，然後向前邁出積極的一大步。
2. Understand the five dimensions of curiosity
3. 2.瞭解好奇心的五個維度
4. Kashdan’s most recent report, the Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale Revised (5DCR), delineates five dimensions of curiosity.
5. Kashdan的最新報告，五維好奇量表修訂(5DCR)，描繪了好奇心的五個維度。
1. Joyous Exploration - This first dimension is the type of curiosity we know and love: learning new concepts, diving into new hobbies and having varied interests.
2. 1.快樂探索-第一個維度是我們知道並熱愛的好奇心類型：學習新概念，潛入新愛好，並擁有不同的興趣。
2. Deprivation Sensitivity - In deprivation sensitivity, you seek to solve problems and close gaps, and you cannot rest until the puzzle has been solved.
3. 2.剝奪敏感度-在剝奪敏感度中，你尋求解決問題和縮小差距，在謎題解決之前你不能休息。
4. As Kashdan explains, the emotional tone of deprivation sensitivity can be different from joyous exploration.
5. 正如Kashdan所解釋的那樣，剝奪敏感的情感基調可以不同於快樂的探索。
6. Anxiety, tension or urgency drive the desire to solve the problem rather than joy.
7. 焦慮、緊張或緊迫感驅使人們渴望解決問題，而不是快樂。
3. Stress Tolerance - This dimension refers to your willingness to take on the distress of the unknown.
4. 3.壓力容忍度-這個維度指的是你願意承擔未知的痛苦。
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