Be curious, not judgmental

Be curious, not judgmental.

Curiosity helps explain things.

Judgement doesn’t explain things.

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Planned freedom, mind

mountains
Not far from Granite Park Chalet. Oberlin is in center horizon.

Planned freedom.

Heard the phrase “planned freedom” yesterday listening to Michael Eisner talk about the summer camp he attended growing up. His father also attended. Michael’s three sons attended. The camp is 100+ years old now. The 2005 recording, called ‘Camp‘, was recorded by Disney Records.

A legendary Camp Director built ‘planned freedom’ into every camper’s daily schedule.

This unstructured time’s origin stems from the belief that young people – boys in this example -need time to follow their interests. And camp allowed for many choices of activities, or, no activities at all. Perhaps, instead, opting to play cards back at their tent with friends.

The goal was to let each camper exercise their own agency with their ‘unplanned time’.

How they planned it was a freedom centered on self-discovery.

‘Unplanned freedom’, in my opinion is what (potentially) leads adults to a growth-mindset lifestyle.

And a growth-mindset lifestyle, from the magic of doubling in my opinion, leads to a freedom only mental vibrancy provides.

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Mentally curious

mother and son in mountains
Was curious to consider what life would be like with never taking Chapin to this ‘touch a glacier’ experience. Curiosity told me i’d regret it. Photo: September 2024.

Curiosity and child-like are synonymous to me.

What an insane gift.

A divine privilege?

Stolen from adults as they age up into adulthood?

Mentally curious.

Physically curious.

Spiritually curious.

Professionally curious.

Personally curious.

What would my life be life without these five simple curiosities?

What would anyone’s like look like without them?

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Combine these two super powers

child smiling
Where was your mind in 2005?

Gratitude and curiosity are two critical personal development opportunities.

Grow them and life changes exponentially for the better.

It may take decades living a distracted life before your life’s framework (structure and processes) becomes intentional and highly effective and simple to scale.

Being curious is a childhood superpower.

Being grateful is an adult superpower.

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Naturally curious

Squat and watch a bee on a flower. Last time was?

Naturally curious as children.

As we age we keep learning new things and eventually we become generally rigid.

New information, readily available, easily accessible.

At some point as adults, particularly at the height of adulting and career, we lose our edge, our desire, our thirst for knowledge.

Our quest to understand is replaced by the comfort of hitting life’s pause button.

Except for people like you my friend.

You defy odds, you remain steadfast, and you set the example for continuous improvement.

Rock on.

Our world needs more like you.

Your family and close friends, they have a front row seat to watch ‘living like you mean it’.

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