Curiosity

Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is “hot” right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you’ll get paid extremely well.

Curiosity should be a verb, not a noun. Curiosity is connected to doing, to solving, experimenting, trying, failing, and then accomplishing. “How does this work?” “What do I do?” “What happens next?” “What do I do to make this turn out the way I want—or the way you want?” “How do I get from here to there?” “What can I do to help you (or myself)?”

• Follow the questions that excite you. What do you really want to know?


• Give yourself permission to explore without judgment. The more you let curiosity guide you, the more organic your system will feel.


• Build “knowledge gardens,” not rigid silos. This mindset shifts from collecting static facts to cultivating evolving insights.

If I could go anywhere right now and do anything that I wanted, where would I go? How would I spend my days if I didn’t have to worry about anyone watching and judging me? Which important values that I hold dear have I been neglecting? Who do I miss spending time with? What possibilities feel forbidden yet exciting to me? What do I really like?

The idea is not to collect, but to develop ideas, arguments and discussions. Does the new information contradict, correct, support or add to what you already have (in the slip-box or on your mind)? Can you combine ideas to generate something new? What questions are triggered by them?