With rare exception, everyone is curious: curious about something. However, there are those among us who take their curiosity to the extreme. They do that when their focus narrows and their interests become more specific and as a result their performance — particularly in areas of management, leadership, and operations — blossoms. And, that can happen in the Family Room just as easily as it happens in the Board Room.
Their life experience is enhanced by their applied curiosity.
The difference between everyone else and those practicing applied curiosity else is what the term itself would imply: the specific application of curiosity to an event, a situation or a particular set of circumstances.
It is the dedication of the time, energy, effort and resources necessary to understand how things work. But, more than that, it is using what you’ve learned to make those things work better.
Applied curiosity results in a different level of awareness and that awareness almost always drives a higher level of performance. It does this by creating a different level of consciousness driven by continuous, life-long learning.
There are three types of people in the world. Those who make things happen. Those who watch things happen, and the folks who are left wondering what — if anything — just happened.
Those practicing applied curiosity are interested in what happened in the past. Just as they are as interested in what is happening right now. But they take their curiosity one step further, into the future in order to ensure adequate understanding and preparation.
The knowledge they gain helps them simplify the complex while driving the desire to achieve more.
Applying your curiosity specifically is a skill — a skill that can be developed and then exploited.
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