MY LITTLE BOOK OF CURIOSITY


BOOK RESOURCES

My Little Book of Curiosity

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Now available at Barnes & Noble here or on Amazon here. Coming soon to Bookshop. Note that my preference is Barnes & Noble, especially if you want the hard cover. Weird things happen with sellers on Amazon for that version. : )

Planning Guide to Host a Curiosity Circle

Consider doing this work with others, creating a circle of friends or professional colleagues to together explore your curiosities and what’s next. Doing this work as part of a community can support you in ideating what’s possible, coming up with paths you might not think of on your own, providing encouragement, and learning together along the way.

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SECTION 1 RESOURCES
26 Inquiries to Inspire What’s Next

FURTHER EXPLORE YOUR CURIOSITIES

  • Consider your own inquiries. What might you ask yourself to explore your curiosities?

  • Take the point of view of your future self. Go out into the future 5, 10, 20+ years and visit that wise future self. How might he/she/they answer the prompts? What does he/she/they want for you?

SECTION 2 RESOURCES
Find the Patterns

  • In case you’d like more space to find your patterns, please find a printable download here.

SECTION 3 RESOURCES
What’s Next?

Here are a few ways to explore paths you are considering to deepen your experience:

  • Talk to people about their experiences in the space you are considering.

  • Attend a webinar or lecture on a topic.

  • Take a class on Coursera or watch a MasterClass or a TED talk.

  • Take on a consulting assignment that allows you to test things out and expand your range.

  • Give yourself a fun project to work on that’s purely for exploration.

  • Research a topic that you have an interest in and see if your interest deepens as you explore or if you lose interest.

  • Put yourself into community with people in the area you are exploring. When you try that on, if you will, do you feel like those are your people?

Have an idea to add to the list? Send us an email here. Thanks!

Curiosity Resources (Work in Progress!)

BOOK REFERENCES & INSPIRATION

  • How to Begin: Start Doing Something that Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier: What I love about this book is how well it helps you get clear on framing a worthy goal. After exploring what might be next through My Little Book of Curiosity, consider picking this up and framing your next worthy goal. What aligns with your vision of what might be next?

  • Creating Great Choices by Jennifer Riel and Roger Martin: This is a more serious or weighty book with a detailed approach, yet what I love about it is that it provides a framework for developing divergent options and solutions. While written for business, I think it can apply anywhere you seek to innovate, like in your life+work. It can help you think about how to create new options that might not yet exist out in the world.

  • The Art of Possibility by Benjamin Zander & Rosamund Stone Zander: This is one of my favorite books of all time. I just loved the spirit of possibility.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

  • “What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi

  • “Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • “Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney

  • “When you’re curious you find lots of interesting things to do.” — Walt Disney

  • “Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.” — Steve Jobs

  • “Be curious, not judgmental.” — Walt Whitman

  • “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

  • “How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” — Buckminster Fuller

  • “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

  • “Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom.” — Dennis Prager

  • “To understand is to perceive patterns.” — Isaiah Berlin

  • “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Seneca

  • “Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.” — Hypatia of Alexandria

  • “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

  • “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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