This document discusses curiosity and its role in creativity and innovation. It contains quotes from thinkers and innovators like Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull of Pixar emphasizing the importance of curiosity, taking risks, embracing failure and bringing together old ideas in new ways. The document encourages cultivating curiosity in children and others through exploration, questioning, challenging assumptions and letting ideas fail in a safe environment.

1. CURIOSITYCat Killer or Breeder of Invention?
BRIAN HOUSAND
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3. Around here we don’t look
backwards for very long…
We keep moving forward,
opening up new doors and doing
new things because we’re
curious, and curiosity keeps
leading us down new paths.

4. Curiosity is the root of creativity.
Alex Wright
Imagineer

5. 2005

12. Stay hungry.
Stay foolish.

13. IQ = Curiosity + Effort
(von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)

14. “I have no
special
talent.
I am only
passionately
curious.”

18. GO

19. GO

21. EXPLORE
THE GARDEN
EXPLORE
THE GARDEN

22. I am interested in _______________.EVERYTHING

24. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

25. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

26. http://platformer.cdn.appadvice.com/wp-content/appadvice-v2-media/2016/03/Bracket_83bf350dc77194765fbee1d02505b2b8.jpg
bit.ly/sem-tech-interest-bracket

27. thekidshouldseethis.com

28. wonderopolis.org/wonders

29. It’s not just for kids,
It’s for PARENTS too!

30. curiosity.com

31. mentalfloss.com

32. atlasobscura.com

33. The real voyage of
consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes.

35. #carpetdiem

38. Creativity is just
connecting things.
When you ask creative people
how they did something, they feel
a little guilty because they didn’t
really do it, they just saw
something. It seemed obvious to
them after a while.
That’s because they were able to
connect experiences they’ve had
and
SYNTHESIZE
new things.
- Steve Jobs, 1995

39. An idea is nothing
more or less than
a new combination
of old elements.
new combination
old elements
James Webb Young, 1940
A Technique for Producing Ideas

40. The capacity to bring
old elements into
new combinations
depends largely on the
ability to see
relationships.
new combination
old elements
James Webb Young, 1940
A Technique for Producing Ideas

41. Know it All

43. SURPRISE INTEREST CONFUSIONAWEAWE

44. Confusion
is a
part of
Innovation.

45. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A7Eq9PEuDQk/maxresdefault.jpg

46. puzzlements.co

49. I didn’t know I was
interested in that.

50. HEIGHTEN ANTICIPATION
STIMULATE INTEREST
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING

51. WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BE
STUCK?

52. SOMETIMES
YOU ARE
JUST STUCK

54. 3
2
1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

56. menti.com
95 21 02

57. http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/i-think-we-just-moved-an-inch-oh-no-just-imagined-it-fml#.bcJ7zxNKW

58. Encourage exploration,
challenge, and revision.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/NASA_child_bubble_exploration.jpg

59. SAGE ON THE STAGE
GUIDE ON THE SIDE
SAGE ON THE STAGE
GUIDE ON THE SIDE

60. Meddler in
the Middle

61. LEFT TO
THEIR OWN
DEVICES

62. CRITICAL
CONSUMERS
RESPONSIBLE
PRODUCERS

64. FALL
2017

65. Emphasize the current
topics of debate in a field.

66. TEDTalks

67. GROWTH
MINDSET
FIXED
MINDSET

69. Invite guest speakers to share
the mysteries they’re exploring.

71. education.microsoft.com/
ConnectWithOthers/PlayMysterySkype

72. Encourage your kids to keep
asking “WHY?”
(even after it gets annoying).

73. 豊田 佐吉
Sakichi Toyoda

74. Challenge your kids to argue
from an alien viewpoint.

75. writingprompts.tumblr.com

76. Provide assignments
that students will fail.

77. http://www.federaljack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/kobayashi-maru-01.jpg

80. FAILURE
isn’t a necessary evil.
In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all.
It is a NECESSARY
consequence of doing
something NEW.
- Ed Catmull

81. FORGETTHEi
TECHNOLOGY!

82. khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling

83. TRUST

84. https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/hbr/0809/R0809D_B.gif
YOU ARE NOT YOUR IDEA

85. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
PIXAR’S
PHILOSOPHY

86. candorn. the state or quality of being
frank, open, and sincere in
speech or expression

87. Early on,
all of our movies suck.
Ed Catmull

88. http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/wall-e/images/6412320/title/wall-e-wallpaper-wallpaper
“If something works,
you shouldn’t do it again.
We want to do something
that is new, original —
something where
there’s a good
chance
of failure.”

89. Perfectionism
PROCRASTINATION
PARALYSIS

90. “The attempt to avoid failure
makes failure more likely.
Trying to avoid
failure by
out-thinking it
dooms you
to fail.”
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sadness
- Ed Catmull

91. YOUR
COMFORT
ZONE

92. It’s about
THE EXPERIENCE.

94. I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask
a fairy godmother
to endow it with the
most useful gift,
that gift should be
curiosity.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

95. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/81/2a/37/812a37b72010cf72cf208519a6e13e24.jpg

96. CURIOSITY

97. STOP

98. GO

100. http://www.disneypictures.net/data/media/202/Buzz_Lightyear_wallpaper.jpg

101. TO INFINITY
AND BEYOND

102. brianhousand.com
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103. CURIOSITYCat Killer or Breeder of Invention?
BRIAN HOUSAND
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@brianhousand
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