Life
Are You Ready for Curiosity?
Have you been living curiously? At all? Enough? What does that mean? Why does it matter?
Living curiously transforms every part of your life. Does this sound like hyperbole and a bit woo woo? As a curious skeptic, this statement would seem that way to me if I didn’t know it to be undeniably true. Intellectually it will provide you with insights and ideas. It will make you smarter. Work-wise it will help you see things and make connections that others may miss. You’ll need this to be a remarkable leader. It will fill your daily life with adventure because it will help you find the mystique in the mundane. It doesn’t require huge resources. However, it will turn travel adventures into transformative experiences.
It’s a simple concept that provides immediate benefits. It will get you unstuck. Your life will be become one of fulfillment, adventure, and opportunities that would otherwise be missed.
Read MoreHow to Raise Curious Kids
Do we really want curious kids? They can get on our nerves—always asking questions, testing boundaries, challenging our own assumptions and beliefs, scaring the hell out of us. Do we really want to do what it takes to raise curious kids? It can be exhausting.
If you would answer, “yes” to these questions, especially if it was less annoying and exhausting, stick with me here.
Read MoreCurious Questions at TEDxPortland
TEDxPortland, with its great and good speakers, crisp orchestration, and fun musical performances, was a crushing success.
TED conferences create convergence and cross-pollination of people and ideas from the fields of technology, entertainment and design. Few talk, many listen. Most come away with her or his own beautiful lessons, takeaways and answers. Some act on them. The trail between those who are inspired and those who act on that inspiration is often paved by a few curious questions.
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand. Richard Saul Wurman, Founder of TED
Read More5 Phrases That Are Killing Curiosity
I knew something horrible had happened. The sound scared me before I felt anything more than a weird sensation. Immediately the intense sympathy I could never quite muster for people complaining of backaches came rushing in with the pain.
The culprit was one of those huge tractor tires in a torturous bootcamp exercise class. As per instructions, I was flipping it over and over. If I had been paid to do it, I would have refused on the principle that it was workplace endangerment. In this case, I was actually paying real money to do this.
Read MoreCurious About How to Write a Book?
Oh joy of tequila and neck strain–I’m writing my second book. Many people have asked me how to go about writing a book, and it’s a great question with answers that are changing almost daily. After sitting down with dozens of potential authors, I decided to share some things about writing a book that I never heard before jumping in the first time…and I wish that I had. If you’re considering writing your book, maybe this will save you some time, money and frustration.
Here is my unusual and maybe even important advice for how to write a book.
Read MoreLiving Curiously Lifestyle First 5 Steps
Are you curious? What’s the point, purpose and mission of The Living Curiously Lifestyle?
If you knew that there was a very specific method to tap into and unleash the greatest power of curiosity in order to:
Think more insightfully
Judge more compassionately
Live a life less ordinary
…would it be something you’d consider?
Private Lives, Feminism & Dumpster Diving
We all have public, private and secret lives. Every. Single. One of us.
So what does it mean to know someone? To know someone? To know someone? What does it mean to know yourself? It’s amazing how much time we spend trying to figure ourselves out. It’s amazing…but it’s not crazy.
There is so much that we’re exposed to now that didn’t exist before (or if it did, we never had access to it) that we are constantly having to reconcile new information with who we are–with our construct of ourself.
Are we
Read MoreAre You Curious About Your Competence?
The other day a potential future rock-star, 6-year old drummer girl asked me a great question.
“How do I know whether I’m good enough yet?”
It wasn’t an easy question to answer because we all wonder, from time to time, whether we question our competence too much or not enough. Are we not yet good enough or are we so good that, comparatively, others suck?
Sexy mind science can be embarrassing when it comes to humans and our competence. For example
Read MoreUse Curiosity to Avoid This Trap
“I would love to see the statistics of domestic violence in the NFL versus the general population.”
“What do you mean by statistics?”
“Well, I mean the reported rates. I bet the reported rates are a lot higher in the NFL than in the general population.”
“Really? What would that mean?”
Could it mean that:
Read MoreWorld History Starts Here
Imagine you have a pushpin. It is sharp and magical. Imagine you can count on your memory of yesterday being the one true memory. Extend your crystal clear memory all the way back to the beginning of time so that your scroll of history is the one true and accurate depiction. Now call up the magic of your pushpin and succinctly prink the moment in history from which you want all land ownership to be determined. Start there.
That pushpin gave you a lot of power. Beware of
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