“Curiosity… is insubordination in it’s purest form.” – Vladamir Nabakov It’s becoming increasingly common for leadership coaches and innovation experts to espouse the benefits, and even necessity, of curiosity. And yet we also know, as I explained in a previous post, that education systems and workplaces typically discourage curiosity. Why is this? What is it about […]
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When all the grace is gone, how do we go on? When the shit has hit the fan or, perhaps, the fan is made of shit, how do we sit, together, amidst the flight fight and freeze?
When all the grace is gone… Read More »
In an era of constant disruption and high speed change curiosity is an aptitude that you can’t survive without. The Harvard Business Review, Brene Brown, and many others have been trumpeting the benefits of curiosity as a requirement for C-Suite professionals to navigate future trends and lead change. However, there is little, if any, discussion
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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein The World Economic Forum – backed by an outpouring of mildly panic stricken white papers from big name organisational consultancies (1) – hails our era as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are already riding the rising wave of an increasingly complex fusion
“Disruption is a wound to the integrity of an identity.”
‘Disruption’ is Asking the Question, “Who Are You?” Read More »
The same can hold true for individuals and organisations: ideological fixations, addictive behaviours, authoritarianism, legalism – all of which may have been a temporary ‘fix’ for a traumatic situation – become normalized and enculturated. However, because temporary fixes are inadequate long-term solutions they typically engender more instances of conflict and turbulence hence further aggravating an initial trauma. A vicious circle takes hold.
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‘Overshadow’ was commissioned by artist Lyla Rye for her video installation ‘Overshadow’ which was projected on the ceiling of a silo in the In/Future festival at Toronto’s Ontario Place and looped from Sept. 15 – 25, 2016. It features the remixing the of Dolores Claman’s theme music for Ontario Place (Dolores is renowned for having written
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An illustrated tale about a duck, and a beak, and a monster from the deep…
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Curiosity is the opposite of blind faith:
it’s reconnaissant, observant, watchful, interested.
It’s gathering information through careful observation.
Care-full.
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Bless the drive that compels you over the great divide. The faith by which you take the great leap. You don’t need to know how to fly. You never dive into wide open sky. You can’t see, yet, the unexpected astonishing weaving that will emerge beneath and before you, a net work of new openings