Using Curiosity for Deeper Insights and Wiser Decisions
1h 5mAdvanced2025-11-24
Authors
Becki Saltzman
Author, Speaker, Founder of the Applied Curiosity Lab
Course details
In a world overloaded with information and uncertainty, the value of curiosity can’t be overstated. Curiosity can help you notice what others miss, avoid being led astray by false assumptions, and prioritize truth over convenience. In this course, Becki Saltzman, the founder and chief curiosity seeker at Applied Curiosity Lab, shows how to put your innate curiosity to work. Discover how to strengthen your curiosity muscle and use applied curiosity to ask smarter questions, solve problems, sell to others, and even avoid common data blind spots that can lead to faulty conclusions. Along the way, learn how to leverage the power of curiosity to gain deeper insights and make wiser decisions.
Learning objectives
Identify and expose missing data and information.
Assess the quality of questions and create most valuable questions (MVQs) to perceive beneath the surface.
Identify hidden constraints and assumptions, and anticipate second-order effects.
Leverage a curiosity-driven approach to decision-making.
Learning objectives
Identify and expose missing data and information.
Assess the quality of questions and create most valuable questions (MVQs) to perceive beneath the surface.
Identify hidden constraints and assumptions, and anticipate second-order effects.
Leverage a curiosity-driven approach to decision-making.
Concepts
Introduction
- The curiosity advantage
- Curiosity reimagined
Inside the Decision Lab
- Avoiding curiosity killers that block insights
- Case study for applying curiosity
- Getting curious about your purpose
- Breaking the binary to create more options
Uncovering Hidden Layers
- Disrupting defaults that limit your thinking
- Make curiosity contagious to unlock overlooked insights
- Find who and what your decision affects most
- Spotting invisible rules that block better solutions
Designing Valuable Questions
- Making a question valuable
- Tuning your questions for more valuable answers
- Making questions fun to answer
Interrogating Information to Make Better Decisions
- Determining fact, opinion, or something else
- Assessing information quality to ensure quality decisions
- Flipping the script to explore possible outcomes
- Using AI as your decision test lab partner
Conclusion
- Building and spreading a culture of curiosity
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