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3 ways to never lose your sense of wonder. Not just for entrepreneurs who innovate. Psychologists recommend:

1. Look at your life through someone else's eyes. Look with renewed wonder at something you’ve looked at a thousand times—your own body, the sky, your kid—thereby turning the commonplace uncommon again, what’s usually required, as Marcel Proust once said, isn’t new vistas but new eyes. And those eyes don't even have to be yours.

2. Slow down. A book called Wanderlust talks about a peculiar fashion in mid 19th-century Paris, in which strollers sometimes took turtles for walks in the parks to slow their pace and maximize the connoisseurship of their amblings.

3. Get out of Dodge. Growing your sense of wonder is often about simply getting out from behind the desk and the chores from time to time, the habits and routines that define and confine your everyday life, and creating opportunities to encounter wonder, put yourself in its path, and deliberately create a little estrangement from business as usual.

Psychologists have identified purpose, passion and mastery to be the main intrinsic drivers of work motivation. What type of work makes you connect with your passion and/or purpose?