I recently read Brene Brown's 'Rising Strong'. I have always enjoyed her writing, but I got more from this book than from any of her others. In particular, there were a few pages on curiosity, which resonate with me not only because of my previous blogpost on the subject. I quote at length from her book here:
'Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. It wasn't always a choice; we were born curious. But over time, we learnt that curiosity, like vulnerability, can lead to hurt. As a result, we turn to self-protecting - choosing certainty over curiosity, armor [sic] over vulnerability, and knowing over learning. But shutting down comes with a price - a price we rarely consider when we'refocused on finding our way out of pain.
