Curiosity as a necessity to survive and thrive

Curiosity is an endangered species. But curiosity and imagination are the sources of the solutions for the crises we are currently facing. That is the starting point of “Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures”. I tend to agree. We are not spending enough time thinking and exploring ideas. Business is uncomfortable with curiosity as a way of living, leading, and doing daily business. We are trained to move swiftly toward solutions. So fast that, too often, we leap straight into answers before knowing the questions.

Robots

The combination of inquiry and invention is the culture of curiosity that has become endangered and on the verge of extinction. And this costs us dearly, both as individuals and as a society. Our roles have been reduced to administrators of predetermined solutions rather than interrogators of the unknown.

We are no longer participants in our own lives

Governments are supposed to be a reflection of who we are. However, most of us do not see ourselves in government. We are experiencing alienation. The social contract is in breach, rendered null and void, not explicitly but implicitly, through a sense of indifference and disengagement among the very participants whose well-being is intertwined with that contract. The plug has been…