By Francesca Gino
Stray thoughts that turn into big ideas. Hazy-eyed daydreaming, or unconscious problem-solving. Why? How? Why not!
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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.
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.
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.
Here are three tips for asking the questions to get you out of limitation, ignite curiosity and create transformative change.
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.
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.
The odd connection between a cliff-hanger and a candy bar.
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.
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.
What you don’t know may very well hurt you. Curiosity is essential to wellness.