Stage 05 · Follow your curiosity · Lesson 1 of 2 Your curiosity trail
  1. See
  2. Heal
  3. Gather
  4. Trust
  5. Express

Stage 05 · Follow your curiosity Lesson 1 of 2

Your curiosity trail

Spot the things you learned because you loved them, not because you had to.

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Lesson one. Your curiosity trail. Spot the things you learned because you loved them, not because you had to. Curiosity is the quiet pull to learn more about something, just because you love it. Follow it back through your life, and it draws a trail. The skills you built out of curiosity, not obligation, are the other half of your value. They're often the ones you're best at, because you never had to force them. Why it matters. Your lived experience joined with skills you love: that combination is yours alone, and it's what makes your expression different. For example. At ten you took radios apart. At thirty you fix broken team processes. Same curiosity: how things work. Or: You've always read about why people believe what they do. Now you write marketing that feels honest. Where this leads. Stage 5 gathers the second ingredient: what you love to learn and do. Hold on to this. Curiosity is a quiet guide. It has been pointing you somewhere your whole life.

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Hold on to this

Curiosity is a quiet guide. It has been pointing you somewhere your whole life.

The lesson

Curiosity is the quiet pull to learn more about something, just because you love it. Follow it back through your life, and it draws a trail.

The skills you built out of curiosity, not obligation, are the other half of your value. They're often the ones you're best at, because you never had to force them.

Why it matters

Your lived experience joined with skills you love: that combination is yours alone, and it's what makes your expression different.

Where this leads

  1. See
  2. Heal
  3. Gather
  4. Trust
  5. Express

Stage 5 gathers the second ingredient: what you love to learn and do.

For example

  • At ten you took radios apart. At thirty you fix broken team processes. Same curiosity: how things work.

  • You've always read about why people believe what they do. Now you write marketing that feels honest.

A line from RumiClose
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Rumi, Masnavi, tr. E. H. Whinfield

In plain words

Trade looking smart for staying curious. Wonder teaches you more than having all the answers.

For this lesson

Your curiosity trail is a trail of bewilderment: the things you wondered about, not the ones you had to know.

Your practice · about 7 min

Map your curiosity decade by decade: what you read, asked about, or lost hours in. Then look for the thread that keeps coming back.

Why it mattersA thread that survives decades is a clue to your real work.

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What did you read, ask about, or lose hours in?

  1. As a child
  2. Teens
  3. Twenties
  4. Thirties
  5. Forties
  6. Fifties
  7. Sixties and on

ThenLook for the thread that runs through them. It has been pointing somewhere all along.

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