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Choose to be Curious

Choose to be Curious is a show all about curiosity. We talk about research and theory, but mostly it"s conversations about how curiosity shows up in work and life. Now syndicated and available via Pacifica RadioNetwork.

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Ep. #246: Collaboration Is a Curiosity Practice, with...

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2024/08/29

Once you know it, you see it everywhere. Ever since Gregg Potter put collaboration on my curiosity radar, I'm seeing it in everything.Gregg is a collaboration coach and founder and executive director of the International Institute on Collaboration. He knows a thing or two about how people work together toward shared objectives -- whether they think of it that way or not. Five skills work together as building blocks of collaboration --and curiosity just keeps coming up. Check out the

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Ep. #245: Curiosity Promotes Biodiversity, with...

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2024/08/22

Curiosity, biodiversity, rewilding -- these are the exciting places Carolin Sommer-Trembo Ph.D. takes us today.Carolin is an evolutionary biologist. Her big goal is to focus attention on animal behavior as it effects evolution and biodiversity. To get there, she has studied curiosity in cichlid fish in Africa's Lake Tanganyika, combining some good old-fashioned field work with exciting new investigative tools, including AI and genetic scissors. I came to the conversation interested in the

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Ep. #244: Curiosity, Stories & Belonging, with Kiran...

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2024/08/14

I could listen to peace-builder and story-teller Kiran Singh Sirah all day. Not because he's a gifted and generous story-teller -- he most certainly is -- but because his world view is so encompassing, so uplifting, so empowering. So beautiful. Our conversation about curiosity, stories and belonging gets to the heart of who we are as humans, and what we can be as a society. Pull up a comfy chair, pour a cozy cuppa, and sit with me. Better still: bring a friend. Kiran Singh Sirah is an

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Ep. #243: Morbid Curiosity & Conspiracy Theories,...

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2024/08/08

We all want to understand the world around us, but sometimes our curiosity can lead us down some strange paths.Dr. Joe Stubbersfield is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Winchester in the UK. He's curious about how our various stories and narratives might shape -- and are shaped by -- our curiosity. Joe has researched how morbid curiosity can lead people to conspiracy theories – an intersection that feels, frankly, important to understand in this day and age. More about Joe

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Ep. #242: Social Enterprise: Curiosity, Innovation &...

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2024/08/01

I'm intrigued by the concept of social enterprises -- businesses with a sense of purpose larger than themselves.Timothy D. Craggette is founder and Chief Education Officer of NAASBI, The National Association for the Advancement of Small Business Innovation. He trains business owners and supports small business innovation through the association and his radio show/podcast The Swift Kick Show. Timothy is a man with a purpose. I wanted to know how curiosity shows up in his line of work. Turns

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Ep. #241: Curiosity, Tiny Experiments & Liminal...

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2024/07/25

Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a Choose to Be Curious trifecta: researcher, theoretician -- and practitioner. A neuroscientist and deep thinker about the personal and social implications of our curiosity, she conducts tiny experiments to focus closely on how we use our time and energy to best effect.Anne-Laure is the founder of Ness Labs, a collective platform for curious people, where “ambitious knowledge workers come together to achieve their goals without sacrificing their mental health.” Ness Labs

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Ep. #240: A Mile in Their Shoes: A River Runs through Us

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2024/07/16

What do people who know and appreciate a place deeply see that I might not? The Mount Vernon Trail winds its way along the river, a combination national park and major commuter artery. It's a place I find myself frequently and I wondered: what am I not seeing in this place that is so familiar? The Trail is there because the Potomac River is there, an always-scenic but often-silent companion. What might I be missing? This is the second in a periodic series of shows in which we "walk a mile" in

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Ep. #239: Identity & the Grace of Curiosity, with...

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2024/07/10

Annabelle Tometich -- writer, editor, former food critic and now author -- joins me to explore the tricky, high-traffic intersection of identity and curiosity.Who gets to decide identity? How do we determine our own, let alone someone else's, identity? How might we allow ourselves and others a little grace to figure these things out? Find Annabelle Tometich at https://annabelletometich.com Theme music by Sean Balick; “Lemon & Melon” by Onesuch Village, via Blue Dot Sessions.

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Ep. #238: Unflinching Empathy & Putting Our Trust in...

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2024/07/04

"Curiosity is fundamental to writing and to everything that I treasure," said writer Rachel Kadish as we opened our conversation. Hard to imagine, but it just kept getting better from there...Inspired by her New York Times opinion essay on teaching writers to seek "unflinching empathy", I invited her to join me for a conversation about putting our trust in the curiosity. Discover the delight that is Rachel Kadish: https://rachelkadish.com Theme music by Sean Balick; "Feathered" by The

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Ep. #237: Curiosity at Work: A Swedish Perspective,...

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2024/06/27

Peder Söderlind describes himself as a Swedish author, researcher and entrepreneur, but I believes he's an important emerging curiosity theorist. His writing and thinking on the topic are rich in all the best ways -- evocative, provocative, constructive.Our conversation moved from "local, difficult, and meaningful" problems for keeping our minds curious and framing problems as opportunities, to the paradox of fatigue and the importance of seeing. Find Peder Söderlind online at:

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Ep. #236: Images of Curiosity: Visual &...

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2024/06/17

Can we capture what makes us curious? Where does our curiosity cross into confusion, or frustration? Can we place it? Might we experience it in one domain, but not another? These are the kinds of questions that animate the work of Emily Grossnickle Peterson, Ph.D., director of the Educational Neuroscience Lab at American University. Years after first meeting, we finally sat down to talk… Check out Dr. Emily Peterson’s Educational Neuroscience Lab:https://edspace.american.edu/edneurolab/ Theme

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Ep. #235: Inviting Curiosity by Design, with Cassini...

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2024/06/13

Can curiosity be meaingfully infused into design processes? Cassini Nazir thinks so.From curiosity journals to bookmarks and Valentine's Day celebrations, he's full of ideas about how to invite curiosity in, by design. Cassini Nazir teaches interaction design and user experience courses in the College of Visual Arts and Design at University of North Texas. He's interested in designing ways to invite curiosity in -- and to help curiosity and care step up when empathy falters. Check out Cassini

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Ep. #234: Tips for Wanderers, with Andréa Seiger

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2024/06/06

Summer's coming. Time to take that curiosity out for a little spin!Whether you're traveling far from home or enjoying a little "staycation," author, tour manager and explorer extraordinaire Andréa Seiger has tips for getting the most of your adventures. Why visit cemeteries, science associations and bus stops? Can you smell green? What do your knees see? Andréa is a delightful coach for our wandering curiosity muscles. Find Andréa Seiger on Instagram @UrbanSafariDC111 Theme music by Sean

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Ep. #233: Curiosity & Creating Sense in a World of...

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2024/05/30

"We live in an experimenting society" Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter reassures us, "The fact that we can use partial information and do better is actually one of our superpowers."Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun takes the optimism and tools of science and helps us apply them to the everyday. They help us think about how we think, taking our values and fears into account, but not being overwhelmed by them

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EP. #232: Beautiful Questions, with Warren Berger

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2024/05/22

It’s been ten years since self-described “questionologist" Warren Berger first published his best-selling book A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas.Now, more than ever, we need the power and importance of thoughtful — and, as he would say: beautiful — questions. And what of the intersection of curiosity and questions? What’s their relationship? And how might we leverage both, in service of the things we value? “The more curiosity there is, the better your

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Ep. #231: The Moore Foundation's Curiosity-Driven...

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2024/05/16

I came across the heading "DISCOVERY MATTERS" as I dug around the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's website and I knew I was on to something. Janet Coffey, Ph.D., directs the Moore Foundation's Curiosity-Driven Science Initiative. She aims to enhance opportunities for active public engagement with science as a means to help cultivate a curious and an open-minded public that appreciates, values and uses science. I was all ears. Check out the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the

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Ep. #230: The Ask Approach with Jeff Wetzler

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2024/05/09

In his new and surprisingly uplifting book ASK:Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life, Jeff Wetzler distills the many lessons he’s learned into a curiosity-centric approach – “The Ask Approach” – that offers a way for all of us to tap into our desire for connection and into the wisdom hiding in plain sight around us. It begins with choosing curiosity. Find the Ask Approach here: https://www.askapproach.com Theme music by Sean Balick;

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Ep. #229: Literary Agent Kayla Lightner Is Looking...

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2024/05/02

A few months ago, I got a text message from a friend: “I’m at a writing conference,” she typed, “listening to a panel of agents answer the question 'What are you looking for?' Kayla’s answer began: 'I’m looking for fearless curiosity.'”Kayla Lightner is a writer and a literary agent with Ayesha Panda Literary. Together we explored how she knows "fearless curiosity" when she sees it; how agents partner with and champion writers; what about the job makes her come alive -- and her scariest power;

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Ep. #228: Wrestling with Questions, with Ken Woodward

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2024/04/24

We talk a lot about questions here on Choose to Be Curious. But talking about questions is one thing, really wresting with them is another. Ken Woodward not only curates questions, he leans into them. Big time. And that has changed his life in ways large and small that are an inspiration to me. I think they will be for you, as well. “Wrestling with the questions has allowed me space for me to work through the emotions, the thoughts, the processing. All of that comes through questioning, doing some

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Ep. #227: A Mile in Their Shoes: Friends of the Mount...

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2024/04/18

The first in a series: looking at a place from multiple perspectives. I call it "A Mile in Their Shoes". We begin with people who have chosen to care for a bit of the Earth, the big-hearted, hard-working, fun-loving Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail. They have found community, purpose and lots to be curious about... Check out Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail: https://mountvernontrail.org Music by Warmbody, via Blue Dot Sessions Photo used with permission of Friends of the Mount Vernon

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