Discover & understand · 1/3 · 5 min

What curiosity asks of us

Discover

Think of someone whose opinion surprised you. What did you assume about them before you knew why they held it?

Understand

Curiosity is the opposite of quick judgement. It treats a puzzling view as a question worth exploring rather than an error to be corrected.

Curious people ask more questions than they answer. They are interested in how others arrived at their beliefs, which experiences shaped them and what matters most to them.

The thread of responsibility

We are responsible for the conclusions we draw about other people — curiosity is how we check them.

Curiosity appears in Cognitive Biases, Understanding Others, Dialogue & Listening and Finding Common Ground.