I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders.
Some of them see before anyone else that something is broken and start asking questions to learn more. They eventually get to the bottom of it. Then they build a solution to fix the problem.
Some others choose a specific market to study. They go deep. They read tons, they speak to as many people as they can, they analyze. Then they choose the best opportunity to invest in.
Some of them lead entire businesses, divisions or teams. They do it with new learnings everyday, in a continuum. As a result, they transform the organisations that they are involved in, they enhance the teams that they work together with.
They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Albert Einstein
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” William Arthur Ward
When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others.
However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligence and inspiring stories shared in these conversations do not make their way to the outside world.
Here, I am launching The Curious Learners. It is a new podcast, an attempt to share the stories of those curious learners with others, who might benefit from it. Those, who might find the inspiration that they were looking for or those who might get the encouragement for their own journey that they already started.
In the last few years, I have been experiencing first hand how curiosity drives learning. My son Arden, (who is 3.5 year-old at the time of this writing) is a little curious boy. Like other kids of his age, he likes to ask questions, follow-ups and many more of them! Up until he feels good with the information that he would have collected. I am truly excited to see how his learning journey will shape up over the coming years. I was inspired by his learning journey. And that was another reason why I decided to launch The Curious Learners.
Yes, as you might have guessed, the first and very-amateur logo of The Curious Learners podcast is pink in letters (Arden’s favourite colour), yellow in the background (his second favourite colour), has a book and a car (two of his favourite things that he can spend an entire day with).
Welcome to The Curious Learners!
Looking forward to a long journey together.