I’m starting to slowly realize how terrible it is working in environments where people simply aren’t curious. It’s so hard for me as an individual contributor to decouple this way of thinking. Curiosity is how we find better ways of doing things or finding out hidden flows that can be better. Incurious people are a contagion, but I want to believe you can make people curious. It can’t be innate.
Every company talks about wanting to have driven curious employees to solve complex issues or challenges but you just get stomped with a boot to your face if you do anything outside your lane or simply ask why.
It’s also worse because I’m starting to realize how lucky I was to be raised as a curious individual from my parents who never went to college but at least were curious themselves about different things (pottery, soldering, gardening).
The quote “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form” suddenly has a different context when working for a company.
Every company talks about wanting to have driven curious employees to solve complex issues or challenges but you just get stomped with a boot to your face if you do anything outside your lane or simply ask why.
It’s also worse because I’m starting to realize how lucky I was to be raised as a curious individual from my parents who never went to college but at least were curious themselves about different things (pottery, soldering, gardening).
The quote “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form” suddenly has a different context when working for a company.