Curiosity Thriving

With research demonstrating that curiosity is essential for organizational performance it is time to harness natural curiosity and be purposeful in our intent to cultivate it.

Curiosity is among the top traits that connect living and learning. When our curiosity is sparked we think more critically and respond more creatively. We become curious based on our experiences and our environments. The beautiful thing about curiosity is that we experience the benefits from birth and onward.

As infants our curiosity inspires us to babble, crawl, play peekaboo, and much more. As toddlers our curiosity inspires pretend play, building, constructing, and creating.

As children our curiosity inspires inquiry, investigation, design, and play with materials, ideas, tools, and even words. As young adults our curiosity inspires the solving of problems, the identification of opportunity, the simplicity of being aware, and more.

If life goes unaffected our natural curiosity can thrive.

It doesn’t take fancy toys or tools to nurture curiosity. Rather, it takes intentional decisions. Decisions that ignite the space, independence, trust, and grace to remain curious in learning, work, and life.

When we observe in both formal and informal environments it is not often our own behavior that limits our curiosity…