Seek
How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World
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Publisher Description
Maximize your potential for connection, healing, and personal growth with this “timely bridge for our divided world.” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential)
If you've felt alienated and alone in recent years, you're in good company. Whether it's a rift in your family, polarization at your workplace or just a sense that society isn't as connected as it once was, many of us feel painful chasms in our connections. Internationally-recognized curiosity expert and bridge builder Scott Shigeoka knows that there’s only one cure: Deep Curiosity.
In Seek, Shigeoka blends cutting-edge research with vulnerable storytelling to teach readers their signature DIVE model. With his guidance, you’ll learn more than a dozen practical strategies to:
·Detach — Let go of your ABCs (assumptions, biases, certainty),
·Intend — Prepare your mindset and setting,
·Value — See the dignity of every person, including yourself,
·Embrace — Welcome the hard times in your life.
Seek is a revolutionary playbook to heal division, estrangement, hatred, and our most urgent societal challenges.
"We've been hiding from each other for far too long. Seek offers us an empathic, practical, and heartfelt road map forward." ―Seth Godin, author of The Song of Significance and Tribes
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The relentlessly optimistic debut from Shigeoka, a lecturer at the Center for Integrated Design at the University of Texas-Austin, posits that curiosity can strengthen relationships and bridge partisan divides. As a "city-dwelling liberal Asian American spiritually queer professor and researcher from Hawai'i," Shigeoka in 2019 embarked on a trip from Arkansas to Minnesota to Montana, seeking to meet members of "the other side"—Trump supporters, rural farmers, faith leaders—in hopes of easing his anxieties about America's polarization. What he discovered (in himself and others) was a "deep curiosity" that powers "meaningful connection"; "unlocks" a sense of security, joy, and freedom; and fosters personal transformation. To tap into their own deep curiosity, readers should release preexisting biases, cultivate the "right mindset" for curiosity-seeking (for example, one can "pull curiosity to the forefront by paying attention to the number of questions you're asking in conversation"), work on valuing the inherent worth of all people, and embrace curiosity in moments of hurt and anger. Despite some awkward attempts to sound hip that fail to land ("We need to move away from BDE to the more evolved BCE: big curiosity energy"), Shigeoka presents an energetic case for the power of openness in an era characterized by social isolation and echo chambers. Shigeoka's enthusiasm for exploration and connection is contagious.
