Episode #130: The Curious Benefits of Curiosity! Featuring Dr. Alison Horstmeyer
“Curiosity is one of our universal strengths that we all have. It's innate within each of us.”
Alison Horstmeyer
Leadership Consultant | Coach | Researcher
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Embracing a curious spirit can serve us very well and there's a ton of research out there that speaks to the benefits of injecting wonder and curiosity into our day-to-day lives. It was the famous Albert Einstein who once said, “The important thing is not to stop questioning… Never lose a holy curiosity.”
By being curious about life and everything around us, we're able to see new unexplored worlds and possibilities which are normally not visible. They are hidden under the surface of normal life and it takes a curious mind to look beneath the surface to uncover these new possibilities, this comes in particularly helpful as we navigate constantly changing environments. Our level of happiness raises, we become more positive, experience lower levels of anxiety, more satisfaction with life, and greater psychological well-being.
Maintaining a curious spirit is certainly an audacious way of living our lives.
“My invitation with curiosity is how do we normalize it? By taking manageable or informed risks, so we can experiment with trying something new, and not being attached to being perfect.”
Dr. Alison Horstmeyer - a leading-edge talent and leadership development consultant, executive coach, and humanistic researcher. She is an expert in leadership and personal development. Her research focuses on Curiosity and associated mental, emotional, and motivational attributes.
Alison chats with Audley on The Audacious Living Podcast about the subject of curiosity and discusses why having an expert mindset limits us, the connection between empathy and curiosity, the relationship between curiosity and anxiety and why she believes that we all are innately curious.
To learn more about Dr. Alison Horstmeyer, visit her website.
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