Curiosity is cheap to start and expensive to fake. People can tell which one you have.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Real interest shows in small behaviours: what you ask about next, how long you stay with an answer, whether you remember what you were told. Those are hard to perform, which is why manufactured enthusiasm reads as hollow even when the words are correct. It also costs nothing to begin, since the first move is only paying attention.
Rather than preparing impressive questions, go after something you genuinely want to know this week. Follow one answer into a second question. The difference between the two is visible to everybody in the room.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Where have you performed interest you did not actually feel?
MORE IN LEARNING & CURIOSITY
- Onions turn sweet if you give them time on low heat. Some ideas need slow heat before they make sense.
- The fastest learners aren’t the ones who never fall. They’re the ones who get curious about why they fell.
- The first time you fix something yourself, everything broken starts to look like a puzzle.
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