Purposeful Curiosity, Constantine Andriopoulos
Purposeful Curiosity, Constantine Andriopoulos
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Purposeful Curiosity
The Power of Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time

Author: Constantine Andriopoulos

Narrator: Michael Chance

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 10/25/2022


Synopsis

Professor of Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School provides his masterclass on how accomplished individuals use their curiosity to reach challenging goals and provides nine common practices to push boundaries and make new discoveries.

We have a love affair with people who plunge into new experiences and push limits. We admire those who imagine the unimaginable, solve enduring mysteries, who turn the impossible into possible, and help us evolve. In Purposeful Curiosity, Dr. Constantine Andriopoulos lifts the veil on how accomplished individuals channel their curiosity to a particular purpose—toward advancing science and human understanding, discovering new lands and opportunities or reaching a significant goal. Purposeful curiosity gets you off the couch and propels you to solve complex puzzles, and teaches you how to immerse yourself in the unknown with clarity, passion, courage, and positivity.

Dr. Andriopoulos interviews Formula One engineers, scientists working to grow food on Mars, opera singers, visual special effects artists, storm chasers, venture capitalists, Michelin-starred chefs, and many others to learn how they used their curiosity to achieve challenging goals. Although not everyone aspires to explore Antarctica or found a factchecking website, we all search for meaning and progress. Whether we're trying to be better or the best in what we do, prepare for a new job or leave our current career for something more fulfilling, see through the “noise” of fake outrage and information overload, commercialize an innovation, improve health, or teach children the value of solving a puzzle, all of us can benefit from thinking like a purposefully curious person.

Purposeful Curiosity offers nine essential lessons that allow us to make use of our curiosity, to empower and help you replicate the experiences of others in order to reach your goals and thrive.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

Okay this time I’m gonna put my review slightly differently. Hope it gives you some “curiosity itch” to wanna know more 😉 💭 The feeling when reading this book I imagine myself as a 5 year old kid whose life purpose is only to find out why things are the way they were and how could things be that way.......more

Goodreads review by Flo

This is a great book to read if you're in a learning rut. It's about learning how to be curious about everything and anything. And if you're the type who has always been curious, it reinforces the reason why it's so great to continue to be curious in life. Whether you are a busy person or not, you c......more

Goodreads review by John

Constantine Andriopoulos's "Purposeful Curiosity" seeks to inspire curiosity for those in all fields. Andriopoulos is a professor of entrepreneurship and so his primary angle pertains to business. He interviews a wide field including engineers, singers, artists, venture capitalists, and chefs. Andri......more

I loved this book and how it took away the need for everything to be about our career / success and placed PURPOSE at the heart of it instead. This book teaches the world to follow their CURIOSITY without strings attached (calling it innovation or something else that evokes high expectations)! This......more


Quotes

"In today’s fast paced world of increasing distraction and clutter, asking the right questions at the right time will often be the difference between success and failure. Packed with captivating true stories, fresh research, and counter-intuitive insights, this endlessly fascinating book sheds new light on how to channel our curiosity to a chosen purpose. Andriopoulos’s well-informed work based on original lessons for reclaiming our curiosity in everything that we do, is more important than ever. Purposeful Curiosity will likely spark a new movement."—Muhtar Kent, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca Cola Company

"If you're ready for your next adventure but don't know where to start, I recommend you start with Purposeful Curiosity. What if? Why not? Says who? Purposeful Curiosity offers an actionable and accessible framework for turning questions into actions, helping readers to harness their curiosity, deepen their expertise and go further than they ever dreamed they could."—Sarah Wood, Digital Entrepreneur, Founder of Unruly, Director at Tech Nation

"As someone who has started several lines of business in my career, most of which I would not have guessed a few years earlier I would be involved with them, I consider curiosity to be a healthy personality trait for any entrepreneur. Constantine has done a brilliant job at defining and explaining purposeful curiosity by exploring it in all walks of life, not just business. Although personally, I am not that curious to want to find out what it will be like to be holidaying on the moon (I think I will leave that venture for my daughter to pursue or not), I do believe Constantine’s book would be good read, sort of a manual, for any entrepreneur thinking of starting their own business and venturing into the unknown out of curiosity!"—Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Creator and Owner of Easy.com