Leading So People Will Follow

Curiosity  + Listening = The Beginning of Wisdom

True curiosity is powerful, and it’s built into all of us. Anyone who has been around a toddler for any length of time can attest to that. The endless “Why?” and “How come?” and “What’s that?” are all outward mani­festations of that inward engine of curiosity. I see curiosity as the impulse to investigate. For children, that impulse is a powerful, instinctive sur­vival mechanism: the more they understand the environment and the more quickly they do so, the more likely they are to succeed as human beings. Children’s insatiable curiosity drives them to learn to speak, eat, walk, understand how to manipulate objects, and learn to interact with other human beings. It leads them to understand what is ...