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No, I do not believe for a moment that curiosity kills the cat! Quite the opposite! I firmly believe that curiosity is a gift that we need to nurture throughout our lives. A gift we should seed in all children, in the people we mentor or those we sometimes get the chance to lead.
It is curiosity that drives us to seek and discover new perspectives – be it why we feel the way we do, what happened to that project we worked so hard on that was cancelled, to gain more knowledge about a subject we are passionate about, to fuel our creativity and innovative thinking.
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.“
Eleanor Roosevelt
—American first lady (1933–45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, United Nations diplomat and humanitarian.
