Without curiosity, progress stalls.
It’s a point often overlooked.
Simple questions bring answers, but curiosity leads to actions that spark real progress.
Never fear a question that challenges you. Fear the ones that don’t.
Curiosity is the fuel of interest, discovery, innovation and sustained progress.
Curiosity can sometimes feel like a curse—especially for those who prefer robot-like consistency over dogged persistence.
“We do it this way because we’ve always done it this way…”
That industrialised way of working isn’t welcome when Elon’s algorithm is cranked up.
Curiosity invokes first principles thinking, which is a foundational approach that drives innovation and effective problem-solving.
It drives us back to basics.
And it always begins with a question:
These questions deliver clues quicker than an Uber-Eats driver will bring you your pizza.
But, as you know, it isn’t that simple.
A leader’s job is to make decisions. Yet, many leaders lack training in the strategic thinking and decision-making skills crucial to their roles. And yet, as every leader knows, business presents us with one startling loop.
One crucial truth often overlooked in business is this: every problem presents a decision, and every decision inevitably leads to new challenges.
You might be thinking, Oh hell.
But before you despair, let’s bring this back to curiosity and progress.
Every problem is a puzzle waiting to be solved, and every decision is an experiment yet to be explored.
That’s where questions take you.
Curiosity lubricates the wheels of business growth and leadership success.
Remove the questions, and problems stop being solvable puzzles—they become costly compromises. Remove the questions, and decisions stop being experiments—they become endless quests for perfection.
No curiosity means no progress.
