"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Today we live in a world that is changing rapidly. We have many drivers of change. We have climate change, we have changing demographics and migration, globalisation, we have socio-political tensions, we have rapid advances in technology and the 4th industrial revolution. According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report (2023), Curiosity and Life Long Learning are key skills for the future of work.
Research by Gallup in 2023 shows that 72 % of Fortune 500 Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) foresee Artifificial Intelligence (AI) replacing jobs in their organization in the next three years.
Today’s competitive landscape heavily relies on innovation. Business leaders must constantly look for new ways to innovate because you can't solve many problems with old solutions. Curiosity and lifelong learning drive innovation. With the world changing so fast we need to drive a culture of curiosity in order to survive and thrive. Curiosity also drives lifelong learning - these two are twin sisters!
Digital skills are also ever more important today and these need to be kept up to date with changes in technology, but true human skills never expire and one of these key skills is Curiosity. Knowledge in the internet age is relatively easy to aquire but curiosity on the other hand can be more elusive!
Curiosity is actually a superpower we are all born with - it got us crawling and walking and running! The average 4 year old is said to ask around 300 questions every day. Curiosity is a superpower that we can all rekindle and develop further. Curiosity drives lifelong learning, creative thinking and innovation. It helped us collectively to learn how to fly and took us to the moon. However curiosity is a skill that has to be practiced in order to build and strengthen.
This course will show you how to exercise your curiosity muscle.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
Albert Einstein
Curosity and life long learning are key skills to survive and thrive in this era of the 4th industrial revolution and will give us a perpetual edge over the machines - the machines never ask why! We need to learn how to bridge the gap between where our curiosity is and where it could be.
Curiosity is not just a desirable skill for the future of work; it is a foundational attribute that underpins adaptability, problem-solving, innovation, and personal growth. Organizations that prioritize and encourage curiosity among their employees are likely to be better positioned to thrive in a rapidly changing work environment.
Throughout the course we explore: what is curiosity? Where does it come from? We look at what makes us as individuals more curious and how we can all enhance our curiosity. We then dig deep into learning how to identify and determine the key factors that inhibit us from unleashing our curiosity potential and what steps we can take to prevent these blockers.
Welcome to the course!
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso