“…Yet, both irritability and mindfulness vary over time, and mindfulness training is becoming an increasingly popular method to alter one's patterns of executive capacities including decision making (Kirk et al, 2016), memory (Ives-Deliperi, Howells, Stein, Meintjes, & Horn, 2013), and cognitive flexibility (Lee & Orsillo, 2014) by altering brain function (Scheibner, Bogler, Gleich, Haynes, & Bermpohl, 2017). Similarly, curiosity can vary over time (Sternszus, Saroyan, & Steinert, 2017), and can be altered by different environments (Tripathi, Sarkate, Jalgaonkar, & Rege, 2015;Berson & Oreg, 2016), suggesting the possibility of practicing curiosity to change, grow, and enhance one's knowledge network. In his reflections on education, John Dewey suggests that knowledge is a body of learned connections between things.…”