How do we de-fang curiosity? 🚫👹 🤔
It was for us to consume and regurgitate and to be able to be obedient, if you will, of punch cards in and out at work, arriving to class at on time, and homework assignments and standardized testing and so on. And in those situations, like when curiosity is. I've mentioned this before in other swells. There was a study NASA did over a period of 45 years where they studied children and found that 98% of children had tested as geniuses. 98%
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:56
So a part of my thing is to bring the arts back in. Creativity as a vehicle for change, inner change, outer change, change and change. And when I go to my boardrooms, one of the things I highly encourage is if we have a problem that requires a sustainable solution, you need to bring in some artists in the table so they can play with it and see where we end up. I just consume and regurgitate, consume and regurgitate, consume and regurgitate
And so when I start to look at, I do these various games, exercises for the brain here, as well as well as on Clubhouse, that I think serve so many purposes that are of benefit to us individually and collectively. So, for example, Wonka's lab was one I did recently. Collaborative storytelling is another. And it's all about being creative. And I think sometimes that can be daunting for people, especially if they think creativity is born in you
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:59
I think about, and I think I mentioned this on someone swell before. I think about this scripture that talks about, it's a parable. Jesus is doing a parable, and he's talking about children and how they. And he's telling the adults in the crowd that they should be like the children. And I liken what you have expressed in your swell to that and the study you referenced. Children come into this world with this heightened level of impure and righteous level of curiosity
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 1:46
And instead of being accountable in owning where they are, to say, I'm not at capacity to answer at all, or it's going to have to be a very abbreviated answer, and then I can give you a more thoughtful, reflective answer by this date and time, or I absolutely cannot give you any answer today because right now I'm tired or I'm having a really productive day and I just really don't have the mental space to fit that in right now or something
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 5:00
So we're looking at thought leadership in this particular way because this radical curiosity conversation that you've isolated, it's great for me because it's the pillar that I knew was there, but I didn't really identify in the particular work that I'm getting ready to do with cast. Thank you. Yeah, this is Bill Nye. Let me see if I can pull something up here. Yeah, he talks about, he wears the crazy little bow tie. He talks about being radically
I'll put a link here to the Harvard Business Review article that has her name in it and she's talking about the study at the time. The study wasn't written up yet, so there's no link to it. And I tried going to her website to find it, but it didn't immediately stand out to me with however it was worded, so I couldn't seem to find it
Okay. Hate is a strong word. I don't really hate them. They just drive me nuts, drive me baddie. And I wish I could go to another planet
And once you're back to the grind, back to the rat race, then you don't have as much time, or you don't think of dedicating time to think, to reflect, to wonder. And I wish then we could also change the work week. A whole capitalistic society. But that's a huge ask. I know. Anya made me laugh when you said that I was a nerd and you like nerds. It reminded me of this magnet I bought recently
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 5:00
You. I love this magnet. Oh my goodness. You have just celebrated all of my favorite people with this magnet. I mean, this is so cool. I really love the, I love reframing. Wow. So what of language? I'm going to throw language into the conversation. And by language I am thinking that language and communicating, communication is the interface by which we transmit all of this stuff. And it's impossible obviously to have a common language, is it?
And I think that can be presented in many ways, maybe through ritual, social paradigms, language. But I'm wondering if that's enough or if there also needs to be some conformity. And so that if everyone was curious, how much would we lose cohesiveness? Okay, this is going to sound like a weird example. I want to use an analogy of political parties, but not to make it political, but instead just to reflect on patterns of behavior
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 1:55
I think I would say, what if you selected the teachers that were the ones that inspire the most curiosity in children? And what if we throw out the others or just hire them? Hire only. However, the hiring system needs to be changed. Maybe that's the thing I would do. Why is that? Because, let's see, one of my 6th grade teachers who inspired me in mathematics, electronics and computers and I had certain questions and she took those questions very seriously
I know I talked about the education system, but I see a lot of these barriers pop up in just social interactions. I mean, I have a self professed hermit, so most of my interactions happen via social audio. And there seem to be all these other reasons why people seem to be threatened by. I think perhaps if they had different teachers growing up. Sure. But there are other things, like parts of the conversation with JL
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 3:06
Questions maybe children would ask if they see a certain kind of bad behavior and they ask, why do people do that? So, yeah, I get it. That's a difficult thing to ponder. Yeah. How could you create some kind of way to stimulate a positive, like a reimbursement? Not a reimbursement, but reward people for participating in such a group where the group's rules are you can ask anything you want and we'll try to find the answer
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 3:11
Now, all things need to happen in education between the ages of zero to five. That is my belief. Zero to five is, if we can get that right, then we have set the stage for some possibilities. And then you get into the low income communities, and the stuff there is just different. So at zero to five, you are in the absolute curious age. And then how do we transition that? So we're putting the language right there
Okay? So apologies. I am a little fuzzy. I'm doped up on migraine medication, and obviously my allergies are also acting up, so I'm a little out of it. When you said. Speaking of language, when you said drop the curiosity, flex, when we're feeling a little judgy or someone's being. I can't remember what word you used, but let's say confronting or combative or what have you
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 3:08
But you're dropping a new term, a vocabulary. You're releasing it to the public like an album. That's my interpretation. But again, I'll let an Acorn Bay respond to the question. I just wanted to say how excited I am that we're coming up with some new language and that curiosity flex can be a thing in itself. Curiosity flex, how do we make that happen? And infusing the language in the hospital's classrooms
But when they're in a group think sort of way and have all come to a conclusion of this behavior is x, then trying to dissolve or deconstruct some of that by asking questions, by engaging curiosity towards them, listening to them is harder to do in a group situation like that. It can be done. I've done it before. I used to participate in a lot of the rooms with atheists and believers, and they were always not as much as they are now. They were quite combative
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 3:03
I dropped my curiosity flex. Instead of looking at it that way. I listened to the swell, and my curiosity is like, oh, wow. It led me to, we're developing a relationship, and I care about how you feel, though I don't think you should apologize for asking a question. There was an apology in there somewhere, and I don't know how to frame it because I'm thinking about it as we go
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 2:59
That being said, I wonder if we could build a culture of curiosity on social media with a couple of techniques. One is use written cues which mimic in person cues, such as starting questions with I wonder or starting with genuine question here, colon. Second, using a hashtag of like genuine question or genuinely curious, that might be too many characters, but you could also designate in your profile, I'm here to ask questions. I always ask questions. I'm asking questions out of curiosity
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 5:00
And what I'm talking about there is language getting changed based on society and culture because we're moving so fast, like how we start combining words and people because we're moving so fast, we don't want to slow down like we are doing on swell and have the conversation, like with the dogs. What the hell is a cockapoo? It's a cockadoodle dog with a poodle. I mean, why can't we do that? We're too busy
Yeah, there was a bit of an apology in there for a few reasons. I don't know if we've talked about it or not, but I'm autistic. Audhd. And sometimes I'm really far ahead in a conversation, and sometimes I'm really far behind, feeling a bit clueless
Oh, apologies. If I said social media, I meant social audio. But I think you're right. When we're talking about social media, there's the algorithms play a role, and there's the whole culture of broadcasting. Instead of really listening and seeking to engage one another and have conversation, I don't even ask questions on social media platforms anymore because even if I preface them with I'm curious, I wonder, genuine question, it doesn't seem to matter
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:56
And I think I might have to back up and talk to the swell team to see on mission how they came up with the word swell. For my on Acorn Bay, I'm using join the swell. Get it? So swell represents success, growth or achievement. Curiosity flex on swell. I don't know, it's got a little bit of teeth and I think you guys will be able to just have fun with that and we can. I love how our brain and our heart is swelling
