we really for ultimate satisfaction and fulfillment we do need to dive in to the deep end and we need to get deeply curious about ourselves, about others and the world around us and even about the beyond if we want to live lives where we're not just trying to survive but really are you know trying to thrive and we know from the research that

people with higher levels of curiosity tend to have higher life satisfaction and they also tend to have more

fulfilling relationships and just positive overall well-being including happiness. They tend to be

happier people and we also know that

when you have lower levels of curiosity you increase your mortality rates. You know,

they've done these studies with older adults and when you aren't exercising your curiosity you're more likely to not

live as long you're chopping years off your lifespan.

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Scott, welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Thanks, so happy to be on the show. Appreciate it.

I am beyond thrilled to have you here. You have a new book out called

seek how curiosity can transform your life and change the world and

considering I have built this entire podcast based on nothing but personal

curiosity I knew I wanted to talk to you. Absolutely. Yeah, before we get on

nothing but personal curiosity. I knew I wanted to talk to you. You know, before we get into the book, one of the things I got from reading the book

was it seemed like your father played a really integral role in your life and I wanted to start asking what is one of the most important things you learn from your dad that influenced and shaped who you've become and what you've ended up doing both with your life in your career.

Oh, I love that question. Thanks for asking about him.

He's, yeah, he died, you know, over a decade ago,

but he still really lives with me in my heart

and sort of spirit in the way that I moved through the world. He was a really complex man, but one thing that he always did that I do to this day is he was willing to talk to anyone. It didn't matter if he there was like the

postal service driver or the person that worked the trash can delivery or you know all

of our neighbors or someone at the supermarket or someone on the bus or someone on the at the supermarket or someone on the bus

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