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WHAT’S CURIOSITY? I’m curious…to know. Some hunters are curious. It does them little good. Curiosity killed the cat, right? Maybe curiosity is bad.
In this blog of late, curiosity has been suggested as a useful and desired strategy. So, what is it really? One Webster dictionary gives as a first definition the following: “desire to know: a: inquisitive interest in others’ concerns: nosiness b: interest leading to inquiry….” Well, this blog does not recommend nosiness. But it does advocate inquiry. Honest inquiry requires two things: listening and asking. That’s really listening and asking genuinely, not manipulatively. Curiosity, thus conceived and demonstrated, allows you deal with the difficult and to dodge dogmatism.