Is Your Curiosity Helping or Hurting Your Work?

Undirected curiosity has the potential to derail you from your work and keeps you from ending up where you want to go. But intentionally directed curiosity, where you make a conscious choice to think creatively about something important, can be an incredible force for good in your job and dramatically increase your overall innovation and effectiveness. It can help you slow down and reflect, so you can solve business problems, build better relationships, and reduce stress. In this article, the author outlines how to intentionally harness your curiosity to maximize your results instead of undermine them: First, identify what’s useful to your work, and hold off on everything else for later. Second, use your curiosity to solve problems. Third, improve your work relationships by thinking through their situation with openness and empathy. Finally, use curiosity to identify and reduce your stress.