All of this exists because I found a way to be curious.
I've always been a curious person. As a child, I asked questions. As an officer, a pilot, an instructor, a father, and now an author, I still ask questions.
What changed was learning to be curious about everything.
To pull on a thread and see where it leads.
To ask one more question.
To wonder why.
To stay interested a little longer than everyone else.
Most of the work on this website started with curiosity.
A question about pilotage became a simulator.
A question about decision-making became a book.
A question about what could be improved became a dashboard.
A question about how people learn became notebooks, courses, and conversations.
Again and again, curiosity has opened doors that judgement would have closed.
The older I get, the more I think many of life's best opportunities begin with a simple question:
“I wonder...”
A quote often attributed to Walt Whitman, and one that has stayed with me for years, captures this idea better than I ever could:
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
The clip below is where I first heard it.