Good morning and welcome to the Increased Reimpect podcast. Justin Suitt here. Episode 1,955. I recently read an article by Paul Graham, who is the owner of a, it's called the Y Combinator. Basically, it's a startup for, it's a company for many startup tech companies. And he's talking about the importance of curiosity.

And how curiosity could drive endurance and perseverance.

Let me show you what he says.

Quote, the best test of whether it's worthwhile to work on something

is whether you find it interesting.

That may sound like a dangerously

subjective measure, but it's probably the most accurate one you're going to get. You're the one

working on the stuff. Who's in a better position than you to judge whether it's important? And what's a

better predictor of its importance than whether it's interesting.

A deep interest in a topic makes people work harder than any amount of discipline can, close quote.

I thought that was an interesting line.

A deep interest in a topic makes people work harder than any amount of discipline can.

Well, that could be a four debate.

One thing I have seen in my life is things that I'm interested in.

When I'm sincerely curious in it, I have this deep pool of energy, this deep pool of focus

to learn more about it.

That curiosity leads to asking better questions and better questions

leads to finding fascinating answers, which leads to wanting to execute on those answers.

And so my question to you today is, what is something that you're deeply interested in?

How do you increase your curiosity in your craft to learn more to be so that

curiosity can lead to harder work, can lead to better focus. The more curious you are,

once again, the better questions you're going to ask. When you have better questions,

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