The World Class Executive

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Curiosity may have killed the cat with 9 lives, but it has the ability to save your one.  How you may ask? What exactly does curiosity have to do with my life?  Everything.  William Ward once said, “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” What he meant was that without curiosity, The human race learns nothing. Curiosity is the driving force for all of society and humanity in shaping the world  to what it is today.

A Shaping Force

Curiosity is often looked over and taken for granted nowadays. No one really stops to think about it , they just carry on with their busy lives. Why should they care? Dating back to the earliest human ancestors, curiosity has constantly proven to be a driving force in technological and societal breakthroughs.  The caveman harnessed the power of fire to use it for cooking and other things because they were CURIOUS.  They saw something, investigated and were able to figure out how to use it.  They weren’t put on this earth with all the knowledge of what to do and so they had an “itch” to figure it out not just for fun but for survival! 

The World Today

Imagine a baby who has just been born and is new to this world. Babies are born curious. They aren’t born with any knowledge instead they explore everything that’s new to them by either touching it.. or putting in their mouths. Little by little they learn how everything works.  When they grow up..we don’tlose that feeling, that natural curiosity. Instead, we just move on to different things to be inquisitive about. We just have to remember that so we can keep on learning.

It has been this way through the centuries, and now fast forwarding to today although we don’t need to necessarily make all our breakthroughs for survival, it still is the leading force in technological breakthroughs. It affects all areas of life including, medical , computers, politics, environment, travel. It doesn’tmatter because curiosity is there to motivate us.  Sometimes a necessity may precede the need to investigate but more often then not it is peoples curiosity to understand their world around them.

Role Model

One of the most impressive people to have pushed the envelope and really take advantage of this childlike curiosity, is none other than the famous Walt Disney.  He was constantly, innovating, and finding new ways to do things. Because of it he was wildly successful and has improved the world for the better.

One of the things he said was:

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

Those new paths hold many opportunities for us, and we should take this wise mans words with us as we continue through our lives.