Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
The benefits of a bedtime routine
How to improve your sleep quality
How to create a relaxing sleep environment
Curiosity and innovation
Encouraging people to be curious generates workplace improvements.
When we are curious, we view tough situations more creatively. Studies have found that curiosity is associated with less defensive reactions to stress and less aggressive reactions to provocation.
303
1.24K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Reduced group conflict
Curiosity encourages members of a group to put themselves in one another’s shoes and take an interest in one another’s ideas rather than focus only on their own perspective.
Thus, conflicts are less heated, and groups achieve better results.
280
962 reads
How to strengthen curiosity at work
- Hire for curiosity. Identify naturally curious people through interview questions and tests.
- Model inquisitiveness. Leaders can encourage curiosity throughout their organizations by being inquisitive themselves.
- Emphasize learning...
328
1.25K reads
Curiosity leads us to generate alternatives
When our curiosity is triggered, we are less likely to fall prey to confirmation bias (looking for information that supports our beliefs rather than for evidence suggesting we are wrong) and to stereotyping people (making broad judgments).
341
1.69K reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
Related collections
More like this
The mechanics of curiosity
Research around curiosity found that children at age 5 scored 98% on a creativity test. When the same children took the test at age 10, only 30% scored well on the test. By age 15, only 12% of the same children did well. Less than 2% of adults are defined as creative based on their answer to this...
Gender biases hurt men too
There are plenty of areas where women have an advantage over men and the workplace is one part of that.
Other studies show that managers view men who have only part-time work experience as less hirable than women with the same experience due to gender expectations.
...
Trauma and nightmares
Nightmares appear to be more common in those who have intense reactions to stress. When our time awake is frightening or remains unpressed, the sleeping brain may produce horrible images to awaken a sleeper.
The more trauma we have in our lives, the more likely we are to experience anxi...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates