{"id":1084,"date":"2018-08-05T02:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2018-08-05T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:07:04","slug":"keep-being-curious-keep-asking-questions-thats-how-youll-keep-adapting-evolving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/keep-being-curious-keep-asking-questions-thats-how-youll-keep-adapting-evolving\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Being Curious – Keep Asking Questions: That’s How You’ll Keep Adapting\/ Evolving"},"content":{"rendered":"

When was the last time that you struck-up a conversation with a complete stranger – simply because you wanted to know something that you thought they may have some idea of ? I do it every chance I get ! Why ? Because I believe in the principle of learning from every experience that I have, every day of my life<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I’m starting to see is a reducing curiosity in many people. People have stopped asking questions – people have stopped wanting to exchange with other people in order to gain new knowledge\/ perspectives. Why is this ?<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s where I think the answers to this question mainly lie:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) People have become “afraid” to ask (“stranger danger” syndrome).<\/span><\/p>\n

b) People have become more distrustful of the opinions\/ views of others.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) People don’t want to appear “ignorant”.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) (inflated ego) People often consider that their views are the “right” or “best” perspectives; so aren’t interested in seeking input from others.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) The convenience of online\/ internet access; and the belief that everything that appears from a Google search is the exhaustive fountain of all knowledge and truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the most remarkable opportunities in my life have appeared simply through holding a conversation with another person. Still the strongest form of connection we can have with another person is face-to-face. Digital communication is only a convenience – a means to an end. In itself it does not enable strong relationships to develop – only quick\/ timely exchanges of information.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve just been helping my son address a school project which concerns the Treaty of Waitangi. Would be fair to say that most of what he learned today resulted from the “discussions<\/strong>” that we had – which led to him then preparing his written work; far more so than from searching for related information via Google. And what I could see happening in my lad through these discussions was his desire to “ask questions<\/strong>” – his curiosity was spiking as he asked questions in order to make discoveries.<\/span><\/p>\n

So my plea to people everywhere is:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Be prepared\/ open to holding conversations with others<\/span><\/strong> – verbal conversations ignite all sorts of rich emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Open your mind to the universe, and in doing so observe closely in order to understand – but also ask questions to understand in even greater detail\/ with greater clarity.<\/strong><\/span> Restricting your mind’s capacity to only that stimulus that you “want” to sense leads to short-sightedness, and often close-mindedness.<\/span><\/p>\n

I particularly love the mantra “Be a life-long learner<\/span><\/strong>“. Puketapu School in Hawke’s Bay has chosen this expression as a guiding light for the development of its pupils. What a wonderful outwardly<\/span><\/strong>-focused ethos to live by !<\/span><\/p>\n

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When was the last time that you struck-up a conversation with a complete stranger – simply because you wanted to know something that you thought they may have some idea of ? I do it every chance I get ! Why ? Because I believe in the principle of learning from every experience that I have, every day of my life. What I’m starting to see is a reducing curiosity in many people. People have stopped asking questions – people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}