A Curious Mind: The Secret To a Bigger Life

"I read A Curious Mind in one sitting. I sank into a chair and fell into the story of this person, who did not start with material advantages but ended up doing great creative work as a Hollywood producer, creating award-winning, wildly-popular work like Apollo 13 and Arrested Development. The list of things Brian Grazer did is long and it’s all because of his curious mind. “Curiosity makes you smarter: when you are curious about something, you learn and remember it better than if it bores you” He calls curiosity ‘a superpower.’ When we read this book, filled with his personal story, we get how curiosity made his life extraordinary. The book has lots of stories about curiosity conversations with people that are famous for different reasons and in different fields. I read it cover to cover in part because it’s so fun and it’s so fueled by curiosity and creativity. Curiosity is increasingly grabbing the attention of top neuroscientists and psychologists. One of the things that’s been discovered by a scientist named Matthias Gruber is that curiosity makes you smarter: when you are curious about something, you learn and remember it better than if it bores you. I’m really excited about the coming research on curiosity."