Radical Curiosity is fueled by awe—rather than fear—of the unknown.

Too often, legacy narratives serve only a small group of people who possess power or, at their most destructive, actively disempower certain groups, populations, or ways of being in the world. When social systems fail to truly serve vast numbers of people and communities, that is when we see challenger narratives begin to emerge.

Commonly held beliefs can cast long shadows over those situational conditions that no longer exist. Radical Curiosity turns a lens of critical inquiry toward these conditions to examine the governing constraints that remain unquestioned.

The cultural interregnum is the messy middle space in which both legacy narratives and challenger narratives exist simultaneously. Friction, uncertainty, and growing pains are felt because so many facets of society are changing—but not at the same rate.

The Radically Curious leader is intrinsically multilingual, looking beyond the literal language of traditional books to read culture as a set of stories. Developing this cultural literacy requires that we (1) be honest about naming legacy narratives, (2) listen deeply in order to identify upending indicators, and (3) begin to imagine and articulate

Radical Curiosity is the greatest expression of what it means to be an entrepreneur, a futurist, and a leader: willing to raise the bar of our ambitions and expectations. It is an antidote to the apathy that leaves us content with how things are and emboldens us to ask what they might become.

As the world has become more complex, singular-solution frameworks no longer suffice. Today’s challenges require interdisciplinary approaches, diverse perspectives, and the ability to remix existing knowledge into new cocktails fit for the occasion.

Why do we sit in a classroom at all? Why do we remove ourselves from the extraordinarily rich experience tapestries of living to place ourselves in artificial containers of instruction?

to author more beautiful futures, we must imagine and express what a fundamentally different possibility might be. As the award-winning poet and author Ocean Vuong described with stunning clarity: We often tell our students, “The future is in your hands.” But I think the future is actually in your mouth. You have to articulate the world you want to