If you’re not sure about what to do next, focus on what you’re curious about. While curiosity can sometimes lead to distraction, it’s also a powerful leading indicator for potential areas of personal & professional growth. You just need to leverage it with intention.
If you’re not sure about what to do next, focus on what you’re curious about. While curiosity can sometimes lead to distraction, it’s also a powerful leading indicator for potential areas of personal & professional growth. You just need to leverage it with intention.
Being curious is enabled by good planning. To strengthen your curiosity muscles, do some homework. Force yourself to sit down regularly and define a list of questions you wish you knew the answers to—then set about asking them, over time. Planning for curiosity leads you to spend some time simply wondering about other people; acting on curiosity al
... See moreCharles H. Green • The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Leading with Trust
What you find interesting is a better predictor of success than what you’re good at.
Curiosity isn’t random; it’s a compass.
-Shane Parrish, Brain Food #627
Use a five-step strategy to make the curiosity journey work: 1. Set boundaries. 2. Take small steps to build a rhythm. 3. Cut down the intermediaries so that you experience the world through your own (or your team’s) eyes. Get up close and personal to foster direct experiences with all your senses. Virtual replicas can never replace the real thing.
... See moreDr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
Based on your curiosity, invest some energy to explore what’s possible. Speak to someone, flush out your idea, or make something and test it. Experiments breed evidence to further inform your path. Sometimes, the evidence leads you to a bigger decision that requires a deeper commitment.
Kevin G. Bethune • Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
But curiosity without direction can be a taxing and ultimately unproductive endeavor. Choice is how we tame and channel and direct our curiosity, where we choose to allocate our time and energy, and ultimately, what we choose to pay attention to.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
When diversive curiosity is entrained – when it is transformed into a quest for knowledge and understanding – it nourishes us. This deeper, more disciplined and effortful type of curiosity is called epistemic curiosity, and it is the chief subject of this book.*