Sep 25, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
What does it look like to keep writing faithfully when your body, attention, energy, and capacity are changing? In this episode of *The Writers’ Bloc Podcast*, Cara talks with author Aimee Joseph…
Aimee JosephGuest
Cara RayHostBenitaPanelist
we, you and I share the same publisher on that book, but you really talk in that book a lot about attention and just the fact that we are kind of constantly being bombarded by so much input and media and noise and all of this stuff.
And like, how does that, how does that relate to the writer who, like you, like we just said, it's not this romantic still version that we, most of us write in.
And in that book, the writer introduced kind of the three different kinds of curiosity, which I always just thought there was just one kind of curiosity.
So there's diversive curiosity, which is like clickbait, like, oh, like Moses in the burning bush would be a great example of diversive.
And then there's empathetic curiosity, which is a curiosity about others, about other people.
Like, how are they feeling? How are they coming into the world? What's their background? What's their story? Right.
And epistemic curiosity is what we typically think of as curiosity, which is that kind of lean in, I want to learn.
And so it's the kind of thing like, I care about this and I'm going to actually put time, effort, talent, persistence, grit towards learning about it, right? And that's where like the work and the persistence kind of come in.
And that kind of started me down this trail of like, attention and like why aren't we curious people why are we why is the world hijacking just one kind of curiosity the clickbait kind and why are our attention spans getting shorter and so just kind of set me down a rabbit trail of of studying attention and then really I mean I think with all anything you study I think the end point really does become the Lord and God that we are curious people we're called to be curious people because we are made in the image of an incredible God and And we're called to be attentive people because we're made in the image of a God who is attentive to his people.
we, you and I share the same publisher on that book, but you really talk in that book a lot about attention and just the fact that we are kind of constantly being bombarded by so much input and media and noise and all of this stuff.
And like, how does that, how does that relate to the writer who, like you, like we just said, it's not this romantic still version that we, most of us write in.
And in that book, the writer introduced kind of the three different kinds of curiosity, which I always just thought there was just one kind of curiosity.
So there's diversive curiosity, which is like clickbait, like, oh, like Moses in the burning bush would be a great example of diversive.
And then there's empathetic curiosity, which is a curiosity about others, about other people.
Like, how are they feeling? How are they coming into the world? What's their background? What's their story? Right.
And epistemic curiosity is what we typically think of as curiosity, which is that kind of lean in, I want to learn.
And so it's the kind of thing like, I care about this and I'm going to actually put time, effort, talent, persistence, grit towards learning about it, right? And that's where like the work and the persistence kind of come in.
And that kind of started me down this trail of like, attention and like why aren't we curious people why are we why is the world hijacking just one kind of curiosity the clickbait kind and why are our attention spans getting shorter and so just kind of set me down a rabbit trail of of studying attention and then really I mean I think with all anything you study I think the end point really does become the Lord and God that we are curious people we're called to be curious people because we are made in the image of an incredible God and And we're called to be attentive people because we're made in the image of a God who is attentive to his people.
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