Curious Mind: the Secret to a Bigger Life

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It was the curiosity of people who run pasta companies and flour mills, mask factories and seaports and middle schools. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, a few years later, he thought about Daryl Gates; their conversation had given him an insight into the thoughts and behavior of people in powerful positions, and he used Gates as an inspiration. The investigators found that when curiosity is stimulated, there is increased activity in the reward center of the brain. He inspires, entertains, and shows how we can use curiosity to tap into the power of wonder and wisdom we are all born with.

These weren’t discussions with anticipated outcomes, but dialogue that revealed a platform for creativity, and ideas, to emerge. The style sounds repetitive in the beginning, it feels that he is using the word curious, curiosity too often and why a substitute, a synonym, is not being used. New York Times bestselling author and Oscar–winning producer Brian Grazer has written a brilliantly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of curiosity and the life-changing effects it can have on every person’s life. An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity's powerful capacity to connect ideas and people.

Not really packaged into clear principles to live by as its more a mix of stories of people he has met + stuff he learnt talking with them. Alongside that there are chapters teaching our children crucial lessons about life, about love, and about loss.

Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Curious Mind features unlikely and hilarious trivia on everything from history and animals to the ocean and space, as well as a special section on little-known knowledge which one day just might save your life. While Einstein probably suffered from modesty in addition to curiosity, it is interesting to note that he attributes his intelligence and success to having a curious mind. One way to do this is by ensuring you and your employees participate in regular, meaningful one-on-one meetings. Read about Liggy Webb's "Mindfit" model, or take a closer look at the next element in the model, a Flexible Mind. After the ceremony, General McConville and another general found me in the audience, and he told me he was quite serious about trying to intrigue me with the possibility of getting the Army into the movies.According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people.