Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie

Author:Ian Leslie [Leslie, Ian]
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780465056941
Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC

* This may help to explain why pupils who have thrived in schools that provide a hot-housing, activity-packed environment sometimes find it hard to progress after leaving. The KIPP schools, which serve children from underprivileged American neighborhoods, have a deservedly stellar reputation for getting children who otherwise would have been unlikely to complete their schooling to qualify for college. Their strategy involves taking up as much of the children’s time as possible, with longer school hours, shorter breaks, out-of-school activities and pastoral care, and packed schedules. Once KIPP students get to college, however, they have a higher-than-average dropout rate. There are several possible reasons for this, but one of them might be that success in college requires a higher degree of self-motivation than in high school, especially one that (with the best of intentions and excellent results) is constantly directing its pupils’ attention.

* Of course, not all questions are designed to elicit information. Often, even without realizing we’re doing it, we use questions as a disguise for statements we don’t wish to make outright, like You’re incompetent—questions that are meant to prove how clever we are or how stupid someone else is. Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and leadership consultant, reminds us that “it’s not enough to ask questions. You have to be genuinely curious.” He advises his clients to adopt the “you idiot” test. It works like this: Mentally recite to yourself the question you’re about to ask. At the end of your private question, add the words “you idiot.” If the question still sounds natural, don’t ask it.

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