7 Ways to be Curious

Hone your hunches.

Ask [questions] as often as you advocate.

The word curiosity actually means to take care.

The problem with being in an answer-culture is that it implies there is a right answer.

Maybe a fast win gets you somewhere, but if you did a slow win that allows for some different kinds of thinking, it will get you further in the long run.

We are all born hardwired for curiosity. It’s one of the things that’s a drive in us, as a need like hunger or thirst, but the cool thing about curiosity is that there’s no intrinsic reward […] Curiosity is its own reward.

Curiosity is more about helping you filling a patchwork of information about what you already know, it’s about pattern recognition, and connecting the dots between things. So when you’re trying to solve a problem, honing in on those little inklings where you have a hunch, and then building there and following the information, and asking questions that are actually building context around what you already know: that’s what curiosity is.

It takes intentional work to cultivate a culture of enquiry and curiosity.

... we live in an answer culture. We have so much information right at our fingertips all the time ... and the problem with being in an answer culture is it implies there’s a right answer… and there isn’t always.