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Let’s Get Curious!

By Patricia Rockman — 2016

Mindfulness is disruptive, says Patricia Rockman, because it changes how we pay attention to things, and ultimately, our experience of the world. Here are mindfulness techniques that can help you shift your focus.

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The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity

Curiosity is a basic element of our cognition, yet its biological function, mechanisms, and neural underpinning remain poorly understood. It is nonetheless a motivator for learning, influential in decision-making, and crucial for healthy development.

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Celeste Kidd and Benjamin Y. Hayden
2015
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7 Reasons to Remain Relentlessly Curious

The University of Pennsylvania’s positive psychology researcher Ben Dean describes curious people as having an ongoing, intrinsic interest in both their inner experience and the world around them.

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Tamara Lechner
2018
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Choosing Curiosity Over Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert’s name is synonymous with her fantastically bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love, but she started out writing for publications by men and for men. Eat Pray Love was borne of a moment of total collapse in her life.

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Krista Tippett
2018
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The Power of Questioning

Here are three tips for asking the questions to get you out of limitation, ignite curiosity and create transformative change.

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Dain Heer
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A Stop-Motion Love Letter to the Power of Curiosity

We’ve lulled ourselves into a kind of complacency, where too often we’d rather be right than uncertain or — worse yet — wrong, forgetting that “useful ignorance,” to borrow Thoreau’s beautiful term, is precisely what helps us transcend the limits of our knowledge and stretch our ability.

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Maria Popova
2015
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The Importance of Developing Curiosity

We’re all capable of achieving happiness and more meaning in life if we adopt the right attitudes and behaviors. Perhaps the most important attitude is curiosity.

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Lachlan Brown
2015
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How Curiosity Makes You Crave

The odd connection between a cliff-hanger and a candy bar.

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Cindi May
2019
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Why Curiosity Is an Essential Leadership Trait

In a disruptive world, leaders should be curious to succeed. Since time immemorial, the most celebrated innovations, such as self-driving cars, electricity, and computers, to mention a few, were developed out of curiosity.

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Rob Urbach
2020
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Why & How to Explore Your Curiosities?

To pursue your curiosities means to be a human. To be a human means to be creative. To be creative means to express yourself in curious ways.

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Juan David Campolargo
2020
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How to Fight Boredom with Curiosity

Stray thoughts that turn into big ideas. Hazy-eyed daydreaming, or unconscious problem-solving. Why? How? Why not!

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Francesca Gino
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