Curiosity
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.comEmbracing 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
Purposeful curiosity helps steer inquisitiveness toward goals that we care about and that give meaning to everything we do.
Dr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
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
... See morePerry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Curiosity has long been the driving force of survival and progress. Across evolutionary time, curious animals were more likely to survive because they understood and adapted to their environments.
Dr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
CURIOSITY HAS BEEN CALLED “THE KNOWLEDGE EMOTION.”
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
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.