#392 Why?!

Curiosity powers high performance by driving learning, adaptation, innovation, and growth in both personal and professional development. 

• Curiosity is the engine of performance
• High performers reject "this is how we've always done it" thinking
• Breakthroughs start with questions, not answers
• Asking "what if" is the foundation of innovation
• Curiosity expands your toolkit with new ways to solve old problems
• Different perspectives collide to create fresh solutions
• Einstein attributed his success to curiosity, not special talents
• Curiosity prevents stagnation and complacency

Today's growth challenge: Ask one "why" question in a place where you normally accept things as they are. When in your work or leadership do you need to bring curiosity back to the table?

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Curiosity's Power
• 0:37 High Performers Ask Questions
• 0:59 How Curiosity Prevents Stagnation
• 1:36 Your Daily Growth Challenge

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to message 392 of the Growth Instigators hotline, where we ignite your personal and professional development. I'm Aaron Havens, your host and growth coach. Top Performance Tuesday the role of curiosity in high performance. Here's the one big idea I want to land today. Curiosity is the engine of performance. It keeps you learning and adapting and innovating and growing and going. Yeah, that's right. High performers aren't satisfied with well, this is how we've always done it. They lean into questions. How about you? Do you lean into questions? Think of a great innovator.

Speaker 1: 0:48

Breakthroughs don't start with answers. They start with what. If yeah, to be an innovator, to be a leader, to be a creator, you start with what is what? If Curiosity expands your toolkit, you learn new ways to solve old problems. Curiosity prevents stagnation. Raise your hand if that's you. When you ask questions, you don't settle, and curiosity sparks innovation. Different perspectives collide into fresh solutions. Albert Einstein said I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. Even Einstein knew the curiosity beats raw talent. So here's your growth challenge for today. Ask one why question in a place you normally accept? Well, this is just the way that it is For real. Watch for it. Where is it going to creep up on you today the way you've always done things. Maybe you can poke the bear a little bit, ask a little bit of questions. Here's the question for today when in your work or leadership do you need to bring curiosity back to the table? Yeah, and, as always, keep instigating growth in all you do.