Jake

So the lesson there is... look for any sort of excuse, however silly or arbitrary, to make anything at all. Because everything we do tends to leave some traces of everything that we are.

"The situation comes first. The characters—always flat and unfeatured, to begin with—come next." - Stephen King

The most important active step you can take to cultivate your curiosity is probably to seek out the topics that engage it. Few adults are equally curious about everything, and it doesn't seem as if you can choose which topics interest you. So it's up to you to

find

them. Or invent them, if necessary.