Curiosity
Embracing Curiosity:
Nurture curiosity as the key driver of great work.
Use curiosity to choose fields, explore gaps, and drive progress.
Paul Graham
Exploration often involves questioning the status quo and doesn’t always produce useful information. But it also means not settling for the first possible solution—and so it often yields better remedies.
Francesca Gino • The Business Case for Curiosity
When our curiosity is triggered, we think more deeply and rationally about decisions and come up with more-creative solutions.
Francesca Gino • The Business Case for Curiosity
The impulse to seek new information and experiences and explore novel possibilities is a basic human attribute.
Francesca Gino • The Business Case for Curiosity
Creative research is all about collecting the dots. It’s more common to think of “connecting the dots” but the truth is that you can’t connect the dots you can’t see.
Tom Critchlow • Building a Digital Garden
Curiosity@Work Report 2021
The report emphasizes the growing importance of curiosity in the workplace, highlighting its benefits for innovation, employee satisfaction, and overall business success, while providing insights for cultivating a curiosity-driven culture.
sas.com
Prior work has linked curiosity to happiness and innovation—two phenomena that are highly desirable in many cultures and societies. Curiosity is correlated with flourishing and physical activity, and is anticorrelated with depression.22 Moreover, curious people are often innovative people who have the capacity to be world changers by imagining a
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