Curiosity Continuum

How do you work at understanding one another? Do you actively maintain and build the respect for one another? Are you unyielding and unforgiving, or gracious and patient?

No matter what we do, change is inevitable. We are surrounded by it. Can you really prepare? How can you help prepare others?

Are you a pet person? Do you have funny or heartwarming stories about pets, past and present? How do they enrich your human relationships?

The forms of human contact are wide and diverse, and the common ground the connects us is that we all need it. Has your sanctuary become compromised? Has your relational well run dry in these times?

You do not need to know everything. But, not knowing can inspire you to learn and expand your curiosity. How do you anchor yourself as you stretch into an unknown?

How have common or assumed conveniences created an entitlement perspective in a lot of the world, professionally, governmentally, personally? How have these assumptions made us blind to the situation of others? Is it all about you, or should we help others?

Monopoly money - We all know it's not real money. But, what if you played with REAL money? Listen to the recap of eventful game of Monopoly that Brian played with his children, ages 13 and 11, and how using real money changed their own gaming behavior and inspired real-life learning.

Notes:

Listen to the TedX talk that inspired our own curiosity:

When money isn’t real: the $10,000 experiment | Adam Carroll | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

Creativity runs wild and free for some. But, is creativity better with constraints? Is it stifling, or like light focused into a laser? Is it either/or, or both/and for creativity and context?

Pixel art - beautiful, retro, and hot as ever. Josh leads a little leisurely tour on how pixel art works, how video games graphics evolved with the times, and how we loop back around to the retro look. A nice visual lineage of video games for the non-gamer. 

Good life advice: Brian does a quick phone interview with his octogenarian mother-in-law, Sherry Hughey, on the Great Depression and life skills in how to survive through tough times.