In the seminar Curiosity Is Your Superpower meeting, I learned that curiosity about the world has many benefits. It will strengthen your relationship with others, decrease your anxiety and depression, and even increase your life span. It also helps in teamwork and increases teammates’ creativity and collaboration. It also has shadow curiosity and deep curiosity. A shadow curiosity only includes name, location, and address. Deep curiosity is more like open-ended questions, exploring identities and interections. It would trigger the layer of the soul of people.
This lecture inspired me as a user researcher in my career. I didn’t notice there were three sections: inward, outward, and beyond. Inward is doing therapy for yourself, outward to others, and beyond what is physical or conscious. I also learned how to become a better user researcher: to ask questions like their experiences, ask why and what happened, and be open to connection.
Being curious also breaks boundaries. I felt so connected when he said, “Curiosity is not deserved. It is eared.” As people who ask questions, we must consider whether they have good feelings about sharing their stories. If we ask too much the first time we meet, they might feel uncomfortable sharing, which is unsuitable for future conversations and building connections.