This episode of 7 Days to Listen! was recorded on November 4th not long after the workshop in Radical Listening.

Take a listen. Learn about Nancy's experience of dialects and accents around the English-speaking world.

Learn about the organic aspects of language, delight in indigenous roots of English, and write your own poetry based on everyday things like grocery lists.

“I think curiosity is our friend. [it] teaches us how to become ourselves. It is a gentle, forgiving and constant friend. Curiosity is always there to tap you on the shoulder and say: ‘Hey, look over here. . .’”

Listen to the "season finale" of Curiouser: Insight and Innovation in the Workplace.

There are quite a few blueprints for success out there.  

In the same way our culture tends to map out a blueprint for success, we seem to be obsessed with codifying the qualities of good leadership.

Fear. Die Angst. La Peur. What is it? 

Do we all have a unique fingerprint of fear? Or is it an essential, universal feeling? 

Is fear a concept we've created? Or is it programmed in our genes?

What is the imagination? Where, in the brain, is the imagination? 

In this episode of Curiouser, I get curious about new research into brain networks and how they may be responsible for differing states of mind.. The network of fear. The network of the imagination. The network of self-awareness.

When Paul Zollo interviewed Bob Dylan in 1991, he asked Dylan what the best environment is for creative work. Dylan said: “People need peaceful, invigorating environments. Stimulating environments.”

Whatever industry you work in, instead of focusing too heavily on competition and evaluation, why not foster peaceful, invigorating places to work?

Biologically, socially, and professionally, when we play, it is like breathing in fresh air. Deprived of play, we forget how much we need it.

Invite a playful perspective on problems. Invite harmless, playful fun into your workday.

Enjoy this episode on how to increase flow and play in the workplace.