Why Staying Curious After 60 Can Make Your Golden Years Extraordinary

To stay curious after 60 makes you live longer and better.

Curiosity is not a trait reserved for children. We all know that kids constantly seek new adventures to explore. It’s part of their human behavior. However, as we age, experience and routines take over curiosity, and we are lulled into a sort of drawn pattern without our knowledge.

In today’s Monday story, I want to share the advantage of being curious after 60. This is the age when retirement is on your radar. If you have already retired, you can definitely relate to this.

After a long life working, it’s time to slow down, live your life, and do things that weren’t easy to do while occupied with a daily 9 to 5 work. But why not add to the agenda to dust off your old childhood curiosity?

What Does It Mean to be Curious After 60?

A curious person is eager to learn new things. I’m convinced that people over 60 and beyond enter the most creative part of their lives. We bring a lifelong and unique experience, skills, and knowledge achieved after years of work.

Instead of spending the days on the couch, resting, and living an easy life, develop all these experiences to keep you active while using these personal “assets.” Like small kids, don’t be afraid to start over again with those typical questions: “What’s that? How is that? Why is it like that?”

Welcome the joy of learning new things and the excitement of discovery.

Kids raise all these questions because they don’t know and want to know the answer. As adults with lifelong experience, we are supposed to know everything, and that’s where we all go wrong. Being curious after 60 doesn’t mean being ignorant but being interested and eager to learn more. Curiosity is one of the most essential attributes of a successful lifestyle when entering retirement age.

No one knows everything, especially in this fast-moving digital world. Jump up on that carriage and develop your curiosity. Grasp the empowerment of learning and the confidence to navigate this digital world.

How Curiosity After 60 Saved Me

After a long and successful career in the corporate world, holding various top management positions in many different countries, it was time to retire. The long working days, tiring business trips, and lack of a more engaging family life finally ended.

Retirement should be the golden years, but I had only wishes spinning around in my head so far. I have to admit that the first weeks were like well-deserved vacations, but it didn’t take long before restlessness and anxiety took over the “vacation mode.”

What to do now?

The high-speed life as an executive still dominating my daily behavior got me in front of my laptop. Googling around on the Internet and searching for the answer, I couldn’t formulate clearly, but it got me on a page that changed everything.

Watch the video and get my story, which I’m sure you can relate to somehow.

Curiosity after 60 can save your golden age lifestyle — Image by the author on Canva

Here’s the link to the page mentioned in the video:

https://thegoldenagelifestyle.com/7-dayFreeVideoSeries

Belonging to the baby boomer group, I never imagine myself as an online entrepreneur. Even if I felt pretty updated on all new computer- and digital-related stuff,

“The digital world is for the younger generations.”

Gosh, how wrong I was!

My Advice to You to Stay Curious After 60

We can express curiosity in various ways. Whatever direction you take, always reconnect with your “inner curious child.” Embrace new experiences with an adventurous spirit and an open mind.

The Internet and the digital environment are here, not as a popular event for the time being but to stay and develop faster than anyone could imagine. Grab it, and together with your experience, skills, and knowledge, you could be the next “·guru” in the industry.

Be bold, take risks, and don’t be confined!

Release your assets of experience and skills, and let the world know what you can provide.

Now it’s your time to act!

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