jeffturley

As I watch my four year old son become completely entranced by the funny little monkey, Curious George, I have started to think differently about one of our greatest psychological tools we have at our disposal in life, business, marriage and family…CURIOSITY. Here are 5 Significant Perspectives from Resolve Lending, Inc. that I hope will ignite your CURIOSITY.

1. Curiosity is the oil driving our passion for innovation. Yes, we might be an amazingly innovative country, but if we stop being CURIOUS we will die. This is the same type of death we find in business, marriage and family. When we stop wondering what could be. I want to be a person who facilitates and initiates curiosity.

2. Jacques Barzun delivers one question over and over in his epic, “From Dawn to Decadence”. “Do ideas really exert force?” – I would add “do curious ideas exert force?”

3. Arguable the greatest theologian of our generation, Jurgen Moltmann says, “Right down to the present day, theology (curious search for God) has continued to be for me a tremendous adventure, a journey of discovery into a, for me, unknown country, a voyage without the certainty of a return, a path into the unknown with many surprises and not without disappointments. If I have a theological virtue at all, then it is one that has never been recognized as such: curiosity.” Moltmann – The Coming of God.

4. Now what does that have to do with pulling us out of the Great Recession? A lot. Historically, recessions have been a time when new companies, like Microsoft, get born, and good companies separate themselves from their competition. It makes sense. When times are tight, people look for new, less expensive ways to do old things. Necessity breeds invention. “Therefore, the country that uses this crisis to make its population smarter and more innovative and endows its people with more tools and basic research to invent new goods and services is the one that will not just survive but thrive down the road.” Thomas Friedman – New York Times.

5. Fear drives a wedge into the heart of curiosity. Therefore in my own life when I face my fear in all areas of life it releases me to become contagiously curious and innovative.

I know what you are thinking: didn’t curiosity kill the cat, yes, but the lack of curiosity fried the frog –  yes, that is all mine.

Looking forward to hearing from you on the blog or Facebook.

Jeff Turley / President-Broker
Resolve Lending, Inc.
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