“Listening is expansive — and like curiosity — an open-ended thing. So it’s being able to grapple with and cope with uncertainty and ambiguity…and just sit with it.” ~ Haru Yamada Listening comes up a lot in these curiosity conversations, and when I came across Haru Yamada’s new book Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening, I hoped I […]| Listening to the Universe
“You know, just use it! It’s like a little magic secret key to living a bit more vividly — because you’re on a quest!” ~ Sam Furness Sam Furness says nothing gives him greater joy than be…| Listening to the Universe
“That was the first moment I could look back and tangibly say I chose curiosity — and got a better outcome.” ~ Tyler Chisholm We all have a curiosity origin story. What’s yours? CEO, author and marketing exec Tyler Chisholm’s happens to involve a pool cue. Enriched by his experience in strategic growth-oriented marketing and as […]| Listening to the Universe
“This is one of the things with the fast world that we’re in: how do we get people to stop — and to question?” ~ Mónica Quesada Cordero Solutions journalism is a rigorous form of reporting the…| Listening to the Universe
“We think there’s a little more of a selective process going on with curiosity.” ~ Mary Whatley No surprise: curiosity changes over the lifespan. Yes surprise: not in the way you might imagine. There are some advantages to aging… Mary Whatley, PhD, studies motivated memory, aging and curiosity. She joins me to explore trait versus state curiosity; her recent research on increasing state curiosity as […]| Listening to the Universe
“Our society would benefit, I think — especially right now — from mindsets that are a bit more comfortable with ambiguity and the liminal space that asking great questions take us to.” ~ Natalie Nixon Creativity strategist Natalie Nixon has a fresh take on productivity and our ideas about time. She makes the case for leaning […]| Listening to the Universe
“Curiosity really is the foundation of everything I do. In coaching, I’m constantly asking clients to notice their patterns — not to judge them, but to get curious about them…” ~ Tim Molnar Ho…| Listening to the Universe
3 posts published by Lynn Borton during August 2025| Listening to the Universe
“I actually still remember our first encounter. You gave me one of the buttons — the ‘Choose to Be Curious’ buttons — and then I realized wow! there’s even a podcast about curiosity, so this must be really an interesting topic to study…You inspired me to keep going.” ~ Matthias Gruber Loyal listeners will recognize the name […]| Listening to the Universe
“Curiosity has so much to do with all of our lives, but in my work it is purely curiosity. It’s that sense of ‘Wow! This is such an amazing moment to be inspired by another person on the planet — a…| Listening to the Universe
“I don’t know if it’s lack of experience and us just not being deliberate about it — versus there’s a fundamental brain limitation. Could be either, but we don’t know.” ~ Venkatesh Murthy Lean into the language of smell with me: we sniff things out, we follow a scent. We’re nosey! Is this not curiosity, enacted? Embodied!? So what do we know […]| Listening to the Universe
“Something that’s difficult for people is: we all want to have answers, we all want to come to a definitive conclusion. And sometimes that’s not there — and we have to be okay with that.” …| Listening to the Universe
