Curiosity Management

How can we be learned people? The answer lies in using our curiosity. When we come across things that we feel curious about, what do we do? We find answers for them. A-ha! This is the way to being learned people.

Curiosity Management Process

1. Be curious.
2. Create opportunities for us to be curious.
3. Record what makes us curious.
4. Ask questions.
5. Find learning resources.
6. Ask learning resources questions.
7. Record what learning resources help us to answer the questions.

As we answer more curiosities, we learn more. As we learn more, we become learned people.

TED is spreading...

While I was reading the top 7 places to watch great minds in action blog post, I discovered a pattern. The idea of TED conference is spreading...

The host location has spread across America and the World.

From Long Beach, California, US to Camden, Maine, US to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TED to PopTech to ideaCity.

TED was originally hosted at Monterey, California, US.

The presentation subject matters have spread beyond technology, entertainment and design to innovation to experience design.

TED to Business Innovation Factory to GEL.

TED has spread into many subject matters.

There seems to be a growing guild of conference organizers who bring together interesting speakers, curious listeners and knowledge sharing infrastructure. May we have more TED like conferences to watch.

This lead me to asking are there any other TED like conferences? I found 4.

DLD, Munich, Germany

Le Web, Paris, France

Lift, Geneva, Switzerland

Picnic, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Principles of conversation

Principles of conversation

1. We acknowledge one another as equals.
2. We try to stay curious about each other.
3. We recognize that we need each other's help to become better listeners.
4. We slow down so we have time to think and reflect.
5. We remember that conversation is the natural way humans think together.
6. We expect it to be messy at times.

Source:

Turning to one another
expanded second edition

Margaret Wheatley

Page 33

ISBN: 9781576757642

10 leadership skills for the future

I blogged about the idea of the 10 super powers of the amplified individuals a year ago. It is about the collaboration skills we need in the future. The idea has been remix into the 10 leadership skills for the future by Bob Johansen.

10 leadership skills for the future

1. Maker Instinct

Ability to turn one’s natural impulse to build into a skill for making the future and connecting with others in the making. The maker instinct is basic to leadership in the future.

2. Clarity

Ability to see through messes and contradictions to a future that others cannot yet see. Leaders are very clear about what they are making, but very flexible about how they get it made.

3. Dilemma Flipping

Ability to turn dilemmas - which, unlike problems, cannot be solved - into advantages and opportunities.

4. Immersive Learning Ability

Ability to dive into different-for-you physical and online worlds, to learn from them in a first-person way.

5. Bio-Empathy

Ability to see things from nature’s point of view; to understand, respect, and learn from nature’s patterns. Nature has its own clarity,

if only we humans can understand and engage with it.

6. Constructive Depolarizing

Ability to calm tense situations where differences dominate and communication has broken down - and bring people from divergent cultures toward constructive engagement.

7. Quiet Transparency

Ability to be open and authentic about what matters to you - without advertising yourself.

8. Rapid Prototyping

Ability to create quick early versions of new innovations, with the expectation that later success will require early failures.

9. Smart Mob Organizing

Ability to bring together, engage with, and nurture purposefull business or social-change networks through intelligent use of electronic and other media.

10. Commons Creating

Ability to stimulate, grow and nurture shared assets that can benefit other players - and allow competition at a higher level.

Source:

Leaders make the future
Bob Johansen

ISBN: 9781605090023

Be Learned

My most often used email signature is

Regards :-)

Be learned

whatidiscover

Stephanie asked does to be learned means one have learned everything and stopped? Is it possible to learn everything?

I replied be learned is my life's purpose. One cannot learn all but can learn more. Purpose is a direction not destination. I agree to her view in one of our conversations that one can never be the best because once one reach best, there is a higher level to go.

I have 2 questions to guide me if I have been more learned

1. What is the 1 new idea I discover this week? ( 1 new idea rule )
2. Am I more learned this moment than the moment before? ( The now rule )

TEDx Singapore

TEDx is a TED style event hosting support initiative by TED. Many groups and people have started their own TEDx group. Currently, there are 4 Singapore TEDx groups. They are

1. TEDx Asean
2. TEDx Green
3. TEDx MIT Club Singapore
4. TEDx Singapore

TEDx MIT Club Singapore hosted Singapore's first TEDx event on 12 Sep 2009. The event sounds interesting from Mahesh Kumar's blog post.

Rich son, poor son

I was watching the rich son, poor son video recommended by Sze Yong.

The story outline:

4 elder ladies having a get together meal in Malaysia.

They chat about how well the children are doing in their careers.

3 ladies' children will doing well. Their children will accountancy firm partner, lawyer and doctor. Earn well, hold company equity, bought new house... When the 4th lady was ask how is her son doing ( in career context ), she reply he is good, he is coming to take me out.

Her son came with his wife and children to drive her to a mountain resort for holiday.

The video ends with the message - love of the family is life's greatest blessing.

This leads me to thinking when one change one's measures for success, one's results change.