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Life After Real Estate
A great conversation is often ignited by a simple question and always fueled by curiosity. Really, it doesn’t have to be profound. It can be something like: “Do you miss selling real estate?” Evan...
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Pray the Gay Away: Right to Choose?
In my Year of Living Curiously experiment, a recent event provided the biggest challenge to my ongoing goal of elevating curiosity ahead of criticism. My calendar was blocked out for the Degenerate...
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Dumpster Dive Your Life to Connect
Once upon a not-too-long-ago time, I was an impostor in a focus group. Wildly impressive people gathered under palm trees for what seemed like the purpose of giving others (okay, me) an inferiority...
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Curiosity at the World Domination Summit
This past weekend was the World Domination Summit. Chris Guillebeau and his snappy-happy team brought approximately 2500 people from over 30 countries together in Portland for the fourth year of his...
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World History Starts Here
Imagine you have a pushpin. It is sharp and magical. Imagine you can count on your memory of yesterday being the one true memory. Extend your crystal clear memory all the way back to the beginning of...
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9 Things. The Lower Ninth Ward. 9 Years Later
I was admiring the cushiness of my cool bicycle seat in the humid New Orleans sun, when our guide asked if anyone had suggested that we wear bulletproof vests along with our bike helmets. “No,” I said....
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Use Curiosity to Avoid This Trap
“I would love to see the statistics on domestic violence in the NFL versus the general population.” “What do you mean by statistics?” “Well, I mean the reported rates. I bet the reported rates of...
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Are You Curious About Your Competence?
The other day a potential future rock-star, 6-year old drummer girl asked me a great question. “How do I know whether I’m good enough yet?” It also wasn’t an easy question to answer because we all...
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Test Your Perceptiveness Skills In 13 Easy Steps
How perceptive are you? How perceptive should we be? When fighting terrorists or Ebola, it’s certainly important to understand differences between good guys and bad guys and safe fevers and deadly...
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Private Lives, Feminism & Dumpster Diving
We all have public, private and secret lives. Every. Single. One of us. So what does it mean to know someone? To know someone? To know someone? What does it mean to know yourself? It’s amazing how much...
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