Michael Rowe

Trying to get better at getting better

Tag: curiosity

  • Research is applied curiosity

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    I sometimes hear colleagues say that they’re ‘not researchers’ but after some probing it turns out that what they really mean is, they don’t love the process of conducting formal research as is often required by higher education institutions. I try to think of research and scholarship as applied curiosity, which reframes the concept in…

  • Cultivating curiosity

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    Carl Sagan is one of my favourite people in the world. Not only did he have his own sense of delight in discovery, but he could express it  in ways that cultivated that sense in others.