How curiosity can change your life 🧐 Scott Shigeoka, Author of “Seek”
Sep 12, 2023
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Scott Shigeoka, author of “Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World”, discusses the power of curiosity in curation and life. He shares his DIVE model for building curiosity muscle, explores curiosity's role in an AI world, and emphasizes its importance in personal growth and connections. The podcast also touches on representation in books and movies.
Curiosity is a superpower that strengthens connections, leads to transformation, and plays a crucial role in curation and personal growth.
Deep curiosity is necessary to understand the impact of AI, protect people and the planet, and ensure ethical boundaries and policies.
Deep dives
Curiosity as a Superpower in Curation
Curiosity is highlighted as a superpower when it comes to curation and in life. It strengthens connections and leads to transformation. The guest, Scott Shigeoka, shares his journey of curiosity and how it helped him heal and understand others. He also introduces the DIVE model, which stands for Detach, Intend, Value, and Embrace, as a path to greater curiosity. Detaching from assumptions and biases, intending to seek understanding, valuing curiosity in relationships, and embracing hard times are key components. Scott emphasizes the importance of personal growth through curiosity and the need for boundaries in deep curiosity.
The Intersection of Curiosity and Curation
Curiosity is related to curation in various ways. It strengthens connections and enables curators to explore different perspectives and communities. Curiosity contributes to healing, as curators who have undergone their own healing journeys can curate content that supports others' healing processes. Lastly, personal growth is a key aspect of curation, as curators aim to provide curated content that helps individuals learn and grow.
Developing Curiosity and the Dive Model
Curiosity is a natural superpower within everyone that can be developed and strengthened. The Dive model, consisting of Detach, Intend, Value, and Embrace, provides a path to enhance curiosity. Scott Shigeoka suggests playful and immersive exercises to strengthen curiosity muscles, such as 'Quicksanding' and slowing down to enable deeper conversations. He also highlights the importance of tapping into intuition and exploring inward, outward, and beyond curiosity to deepen understanding and connection.
The Role of Curiosity in the Age of AI
Curiosity plays a crucial role in understanding the impact of AI on society. Scott Shigeoka emphasizes the need for intellectual humility and to question the potential harms and consequences of AI. Deep curiosity is necessary to uncover the effects of AI on communities and the planet, as well as to ensure ethical boundaries and policies are in place. He encourages staying deeply curious, visible discussions to protect people and the planet while AI is developed.
“I'm really interested in curators who have done the work of healing through their deep curiosity and then are thinking about what they can curate to help others on their journey. I can't think of anything that's more worthwhile and more meaningful than extending that vulnerability of your own healing journey and trying to support others on theirs.” — Scott Shigeoka, author of “Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World”
In talking to curators about what it takes to be successful, one word that keeps coming up again and again is “curiosity.” Being curious — and pursuing curiosity with an open heart — is a superpower when it comes to curation. Turns out it’s also a superpower in life.
Scott Shigeoka wrote the book on curiosity (coming out on Nov. 14) and says we’re all born with it. He adds that curiosity is like a muscle: with practice, any of us can get better at it, and when we do, the effects are profound. In this conversation, Scott shares his research, philosophy and practical exercises on how to become a more curious person and why it matters in the first place.
Other highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
The definition of curiosity
His DIVE model for building your curiosity muscle
How curiosity fares in an AI world
What curators should know about curiosity and how they can leverage it
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