Curiosity
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Segal: Survey finds curiosity and excitement are top tech worker emotions
“And I am happy to report, as you can see here, that the top two emotions are positive emotions, curiosity, and excitement.”
Curiosity is triggered by partial knowledge, not complete ignorance
“Curiosity isn't triggered by knowing nothing. It's triggered by knowing almost enough. Like a partial answer. A question, but not the resolution. A setup. No payoff. The brain experiences this as a physical discomfort.”
Dr. Becky: Curiosity and judgment are mutually exclusive mental states
“You inherently cannot be judgmental. When you're curious. And when you're judgmental about something, you're inherently not curious about it.”
Barry Diller: Curiosity is biologically innate and cannot be willed
“Curiosity, I absolutely believe is innate. I mean, I guess people could try, oh, make me curious, you know? Yeah. I don't know how you'd go about that. I think you either have the biology, so much to me is about biology and not necessarily willful direction”
Rauch: Prompting AI is the best proxy for measuring candidate curiosity
“I think prompting is the biggest proxy for how would I measure someone's curiosity.”
Lachs: Curiosity Cannot Be Taught to Team Members
“You can't teach curiosity. Or at least I haven't found a way to do it.”
Senra: Curiosity is the single secret to doing great work
“If you asked an oracle the secret to doing great work, and the oracle had to reply with a single word, my bet would be on curiosity.”
Dr. Gio Valiante: Mastery-oriented individuals respond to failure with curiosity
“When mastery oriented individuals fail, The reaction is curiosity.”
Isenberg: Curiosity increases luck surface area but multiplies rejection
“I've learned that when you're curious, it increases your You know, what people call the luck surface area. Like you become more lucky if you're curious, that being said, you also get burned and rejected a hundred times more when you're curious, right?”
Curiosity is nearly impossible to teach in corporate environments
“Plus reflecting on the personality traits, because I think there are some things that you better hire for, and that are super hard to develop in a corporate environment. So for me that, for example, is curiosity.”
Klein: Curiosity about confusing anomalies is the core driver of insights
“So in terms of insight, in terms of changing our beliefs, that's the secret sauce for this kind of pathway, or even practically for any of the pathways, is to become curious about things that don't make sense.”
Curiosity displaces fear and accelerates pattern recognition in intense negotiations
“When you're curious, you also have pushed fear out of your brain. You can't be afraid and curious simultaneously. When you're curious, you're in a positive state of mind, which is smarter. You hear better. You see patterns more quickly. You see deals faster. W…”