http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2016/01/control-your-curiosity.html
https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2016/02/control-your-curiosity-part-2.html
plus the YouTube speeches that correspond to those blog posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqYmYUUp-4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQba_JNFhtI
For this edition of "Control Your Curiosity", I want to focus on bad timing. Some questions aren't bad questions, but they sometimes get asked at the wrong time. It isn't that the questions are bad, it's the timing that's bad.
I tell my students to not ask personal questions during classtime. Focus on the assignments. I'm not there to be their buddy, I'm there to make sure the students are focusing on their assignments.
I do sometimes answer those questions during recess or afterschool. That's free time. That's chill time. But not during classtime!
Even with co-workers, I don't answer personal questions during busy times. Wait until another time!
It reminds me of when I was working at a fashion retail store, I was doing markdowns (meaning I scan the item's price tickets, and if it doesn't match what's on the scanner, I print a new price ticket) which has to be completed before the store opens. I was being asked a series of open-ended questions (meaning they're not yes-no questions, they're questions that require explanations) and I told that person "I'm not in a mood to answer personal questions right now".
I don't want to sound like some aloof person, but answering these questions would require that I stop what I'm doing to explain my answers to those personal questions. I don't have time for that!
I'll answer questions to help the other co-workers do their jobs competently. I'll help another person that needs my help. But please, ease up on the personal questions when I'm working on something important.
That co-workers could've easily look up this blog or check my facebook to get some answers. I reveal more than many people would. I reveal it to public looking up that information on their own free time. I rather have that than to have people ask personal questions on my work time.
Is it time to work? Yes? Then focus on work.
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As for my students, they do sometimes look up my name and found my blog and my YouTube channel.
I never start a conversation about my blog or YouTube videos to my students. Blogs and YouTube videos are something I do on my own free time.
But students do look up my name and found my blog or YouTube channel. During classtime, if they bring it up, I tell them to focus on their assignments, that I don't answer personal questions during classtime.
Sometimes, during recess or afterschool, they might say "I saw you on YouTube" or "I subscribe to your YouTube channel". I usually just thank them :)
The funniest comments I heard was "now I know what an adult is" and "hey Mr Pablo, control your curiosity"
So here's the 3rd video about "control your curiosity"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJyHIJxgaAc
