218: Being Curious About being in Someone Else's Shoes
“I'm curious. Like, what will happen? I try to think about it from the other person's perspective. If I were in their shoes and living in that situation, what would it be like? And I think that creates a certain openness to experiences.”
About this episode
Let’s talk about that word, “curiosity.”
I think a lot about curiosity. You could say, I’m curious about being curious.
Being curious naturally forces us to slow down, to take ourselves off the autopilot or cruise control mode that is daily life for most of us. Being curious encourages us to engage more meaningfully with others at work, at home, and school. As we’ll hear in this series, being curious lays several other key benefits right at our feet.
I’ve asked several people to come on the show in this series to talk very briefly about an aspect of their life that makes them tilt their heads in curiosity and want to figure out how to satisfy it. My goal here is to have you, my listeners, experience a spark of curiosity and maybe disengage your own autopilot.
My guest in this episode
Dr. Christine Mason is the Executive Director, Center for Educational Improvement; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine, Program for Recovery and Community Health; Chief Advisor, Childhood-Trauma Learning Collaborative; New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. Dr. Mason has co-authored several books, notably Visioning Onward and Compassionate School Practices.
In this episode, Chris engages her curiosity to pause and gain perspective on how others live.
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