Lynn Borton
@choosetobecurious.bsky.social
Producer & Host of Choose to Be Curious radio show/podcast - we talk about research and theory, but mostly it’s conversations about how curiosity shows up in work and life. choosetobecurious.com
Enough with the polite, front parlor pablum of the past — and onward toward rich #discussion, mindful discourse, self-disclosure, and – dare I say it? – #curiosity!
Enter Skip the Small Talk.
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Enter Skip the Small Talk.
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Skip the Small Talk, with Ashley Kirsner
Enough with the polite, front parlor pablum of the past -- and onward toward rich discussion, mindful discourse, self-disclosure, and – dare I say it? – curiosity! Wanting to do something about the ep...
lynnborton.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Enough with the polite, front parlor pablum of the past — and onward toward rich #discussion, mindful discourse, self-disclosure, and – dare I say it? – #curiosity!
Enter Skip the Small Talk.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/20/s...
Enter Skip the Small Talk.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/20/s...
"Throughout all my years of teaching and making new works for the theater, I realized how you really have to be curious about life. More than anything, it's about life, about living, about people." ~ renown #playwright Stan Lai
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Throughout all my years of teaching and making new works for the theater, I realized how you really have to be curious about life. More than anything, it's about life, about living, about people." ~ renown #playwright Stan Lai
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
"In starting to understand how to get to what you need to know, you have to first start with knowing what you don't know." ~ Stan Lai
Playwright Stan Lai & I talk about #creativity, #curiosity and the power in knowing what you don't know...
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Playwright Stan Lai & I talk about #creativity, #curiosity and the power in knowing what you don't know...
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"In starting to understand how to get to what you need to know, you have to first start with knowing what you don't know." ~ Stan Lai
Playwright Stan Lai & I talk about #creativity, #curiosity and the power in knowing what you don't know...
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Playwright Stan Lai & I talk about #creativity, #curiosity and the power in knowing what you don't know...
Listen here: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
"Everything is our teacher." ~ Stan Lai
Playwright Stan Lai's warmth and wisdom just kept coming in our conversation about the practice and mastery of creativity -- what he calls "creativitry".
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Playwright Stan Lai's warmth and wisdom just kept coming in our conversation about the practice and mastery of creativity -- what he calls "creativitry".
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"Everything is our teacher." ~ Stan Lai
Playwright Stan Lai's warmth and wisdom just kept coming in our conversation about the practice and mastery of creativity -- what he calls "creativitry".
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Playwright Stan Lai's warmth and wisdom just kept coming in our conversation about the practice and mastery of creativity -- what he calls "creativitry".
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Playwright and director Stan Lai has #theater companies in both Shanghai and Taiwan and his book on creativity has sold a 1,000,000+ copies in Chinese. We talk about his concept of "creativitry", the practice and mastery of #creativity -- & where #curiosity fits in.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
Curiosity & Creativitry: The Know-How, Practice & Mastery of Creativity, with Stan Lai
“Creativitry”, writes legendary playwright Stan Lai in the preface to his new book of that name, "Doesn’t exist as a word. Just as all creative things do not exist -- until they do. "Rhymes with Artis...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Playwright and director Stan Lai has #theater companies in both Shanghai and Taiwan and his book on creativity has sold a 1,000,000+ copies in Chinese. We talk about his concept of "creativitry", the practice and mastery of #creativity -- & where #curiosity fits in.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
lynnborton.com/2025/11/13/c...
"How can we be in #community together and give each other access in a way that will foster greater connection and will result in the best interaction possible?" ~ Qudsiya Naqui
listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"How can we be in #community together and give each other access in a way that will foster greater connection and will result in the best interaction possible?" ~ Qudsiya Naqui
listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
listen: lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
Today is a special milestone for Choose to Be Curious. On this date three years ago the show debuted on Radio Asheville - WPVM 103.7.
Thank you WPVM for all that you did and do for me, curiosity, and community radio around the country! #LPFM #choosetobecurious #gratitude
Thank you WPVM for all that you did and do for me, curiosity, and community radio around the country! #LPFM #choosetobecurious #gratitude
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today is a special milestone for Choose to Be Curious. On this date three years ago the show debuted on Radio Asheville - WPVM 103.7.
Thank you WPVM for all that you did and do for me, curiosity, and community radio around the country! #LPFM #choosetobecurious #gratitude
Thank you WPVM for all that you did and do for me, curiosity, and community radio around the country! #LPFM #choosetobecurious #gratitude
"Being in disability," says law professor and #disability advocate Qudsiya Naqui, "has stripped away my tendency to make assumptions...and rather than assuming, #listening ...Really trying to understand what someone's human bodily, mental experience is."
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Being in disability," says law professor and #disability advocate Qudsiya Naqui, "has stripped away my tendency to make assumptions...and rather than assuming, #listening ...Really trying to understand what someone's human bodily, mental experience is."
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
How might understanding the experiences of #disability help us be more #curious about our own and others’ minds and bodies?
And, most importantly, how might any of that help us be #kinder and more #patient with ourselves and each other?
Qudsiya Naqui has thoughts.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
And, most importantly, how might any of that help us be #kinder and more #patient with ourselves and each other?
Qudsiya Naqui has thoughts.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
Curious in Body & Mind, with Qudsiya Naqui
How might understanding the experiences of disability help us be more curious about our own and others' minds and bodies? And, most importantly, how might any of that help us be kinder and more patien...
lynnborton.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
How might understanding the experiences of #disability help us be more #curious about our own and others’ minds and bodies?
And, most importantly, how might any of that help us be #kinder and more #patient with ourselves and each other?
Qudsiya Naqui has thoughts.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
And, most importantly, how might any of that help us be #kinder and more #patient with ourselves and each other?
Qudsiya Naqui has thoughts.
lynnborton.com/2025/11/06/c...
Election Day all around the country. Take a little advice from some wise high school students I knew back in the day...
VOTE!
#vote #howtochangetheworld #choosetobecurious #WOFA
VOTE!
#vote #howtochangetheworld #choosetobecurious #WOFA
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Election Day all around the country. Take a little advice from some wise high school students I knew back in the day...
VOTE!
#vote #howtochangetheworld #choosetobecurious #WOFA
VOTE!
#vote #howtochangetheworld #choosetobecurious #WOFA
I had to sit with this one for a while.
"To use connection as a tool, connection can't be the goal," says Brian Fretwell. What do you think?
Catch the entire conversation here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
"To use connection as a tool, connection can't be the goal," says Brian Fretwell. What do you think?
Catch the entire conversation here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I had to sit with this one for a while.
"To use connection as a tool, connection can't be the goal," says Brian Fretwell. What do you think?
Catch the entire conversation here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
"To use connection as a tool, connection can't be the goal," says Brian Fretwell. What do you think?
Catch the entire conversation here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
"There's something different that happens when another human is asking you the question," Brian Fretwell assured me. And I think he's right. Very cool things happen when we're in curious conversation with one another...
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"There's something different that happens when another human is asking you the question," Brian Fretwell assured me. And I think he's right. Very cool things happen when we're in curious conversation with one another...
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
I hope you'll listen: lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
Brian Fretwell’s work grows out of a rich mix of neuroscience, anthropology, leadership and self-interested curiosity.
Rather than obsessing about where we fell short, he encourages us to learn from our successes instead.
The secret is connection.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
Rather than obsessing about where we fell short, he encourages us to learn from our successes instead.
The secret is connection.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
Curiosity & Finding Good, with Brian Fretwell
Brian Fretwell's work grows out of a rich mix of neuroscience, anthropology, leadership and what you might call self-interested curiosity. Rather than obsessing about where we fell short and consoling...
lynnborton.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Brian Fretwell’s work grows out of a rich mix of neuroscience, anthropology, leadership and self-interested curiosity.
Rather than obsessing about where we fell short, he encourages us to learn from our successes instead.
The secret is connection.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
Rather than obsessing about where we fell short, he encourages us to learn from our successes instead.
The secret is connection.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/30/c...
Curiosity has consequences -- and, happily, once you see some of the delights others have noticed, you can't not see them as well!
This is among the many delights of PechaKucha. Check out my conversation about curiosity at PechaKucha Night Knoxville: lynnborton.com/2025/10/23/c...
This is among the many delights of PechaKucha. Check out my conversation about curiosity at PechaKucha Night Knoxville: lynnborton.com/2025/10/23/c...
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Curiosity has consequences -- and, happily, once you see some of the delights others have noticed, you can't not see them as well!
This is among the many delights of PechaKucha. Check out my conversation about curiosity at PechaKucha Night Knoxville: lynnborton.com/2025/10/23/c...
This is among the many delights of PechaKucha. Check out my conversation about curiosity at PechaKucha Night Knoxville: lynnborton.com/2025/10/23/c...
PechaKucha Night Knoxville is using #curiosity to build #community, 400 seconds at a time.
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lynnborton.com/2025/10/23/c...
Curiosity at PechaKucha Night Knoxville, with Lila Honaker & Matthew DeBardelaben
What if there were a mechanism – a format – that kept novelty high, provided some assurance that the information being imparted was important (at least to someone), and that might tap into things we k...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
PechaKucha Night Knoxville is using #curiosity to build #community, 400 seconds at a time.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/23/c...
lynnborton.com/2025/10/23/c...
"You don't know unless you go."
On summoning our courage and curiosity to overcome whatever barriers there may be. #choosetobecurious
Great convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
On summoning our courage and curiosity to overcome whatever barriers there may be. #choosetobecurious
Great convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"You don't know unless you go."
On summoning our courage and curiosity to overcome whatever barriers there may be. #choosetobecurious
Great convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
On summoning our courage and curiosity to overcome whatever barriers there may be. #choosetobecurious
Great convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
One day I will walk some of these routes….
Up for helping with #SlowWays this weekend? This map shows 900 routes across Britain that need just one more good review to be verified🐌✅⭐️❤️
Could you check one... or even a trail of routes? And inspire others to follow in your footsteps?
Take look:
beta.slowways.org/user/waylist...
Could you check one... or even a trail of routes? And inspire others to follow in your footsteps?
Take look:
beta.slowways.org/user/waylist...
October 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
One day I will walk some of these routes….
"Curiosity is the antidote to hopelessness," and other wonderful insights from Birdability executive director Cat Fribley in this delightful conversation about making curiosity accessible. I hope you will listen: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Curiosity is the antidote to hopelessness," and other wonderful insights from Birdability executive director Cat Fribley in this delightful conversation about making curiosity accessible. I hope you will listen: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Where's your sit spot?
Where do you go to sit and observe the world around you?
It doesn't have to be fancy, needn't be much. But you'll be surprised by the rewards you'll reap.
Lovely convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley on Making Curiosity Accessible: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Where do you go to sit and observe the world around you?
It doesn't have to be fancy, needn't be much. But you'll be surprised by the rewards you'll reap.
Lovely convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley on Making Curiosity Accessible: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
October 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Where's your sit spot?
Where do you go to sit and observe the world around you?
It doesn't have to be fancy, needn't be much. But you'll be surprised by the rewards you'll reap.
Lovely convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley on Making Curiosity Accessible: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Where do you go to sit and observe the world around you?
It doesn't have to be fancy, needn't be much. But you'll be surprised by the rewards you'll reap.
Lovely convo with Birdability's own Cat Fribley on Making Curiosity Accessible: lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Cat Fribley of Birdabilty has some great thoughts on what accessibility around curiosity really means and entails.
Birdablity Week (Oct 20-26) celebrates birders with disabilities and other health concerns - and has something for everybody and EVERY BODY.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Birdablity Week (Oct 20-26) celebrates birders with disabilities and other health concerns - and has something for everybody and EVERY BODY.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Birdability & Making Curiosity Accessible, with Cat Fribley
I was delighted to sit down with accessibility advocate and Birdablity executive director, Cat Fribley to explore the lessons to be learned from the organization -- and from Birdability Week, a week f...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cat Fribley of Birdabilty has some great thoughts on what accessibility around curiosity really means and entails.
Birdablity Week (Oct 20-26) celebrates birders with disabilities and other health concerns - and has something for everybody and EVERY BODY.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Birdablity Week (Oct 20-26) celebrates birders with disabilities and other health concerns - and has something for everybody and EVERY BODY.
lynnborton.com/2025/10/16/b...
Imagine what it means to listen with the energy of fourteen hearts…
Think what that makes possible!
Check out my illuminating conversation with Haru Yamada on Curiosity & Listening with the Energy of Fourteen Hearts: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
Think what that makes possible!
Check out my illuminating conversation with Haru Yamada on Curiosity & Listening with the Energy of Fourteen Hearts: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Imagine what it means to listen with the energy of fourteen hearts…
Think what that makes possible!
Check out my illuminating conversation with Haru Yamada on Curiosity & Listening with the Energy of Fourteen Hearts: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
Think what that makes possible!
Check out my illuminating conversation with Haru Yamada on Curiosity & Listening with the Energy of Fourteen Hearts: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
Do you think of yourself as an "expansive listener"?
How might you become re-attuned to an expansive practice of listening?
Think for a moment what it means to listen with the energy of fourteen hearts…
Imagine what that makes possible!
Here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
#choosetobecurious
How might you become re-attuned to an expansive practice of listening?
Think for a moment what it means to listen with the energy of fourteen hearts…
Imagine what that makes possible!
Here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
#choosetobecurious
October 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Do you think of yourself as an "expansive listener"?
How might you become re-attuned to an expansive practice of listening?
Think for a moment what it means to listen with the energy of fourteen hearts…
Imagine what that makes possible!
Here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
#choosetobecurious
How might you become re-attuned to an expansive practice of listening?
Think for a moment what it means to listen with the energy of fourteen hearts…
Imagine what that makes possible!
Here: lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
#choosetobecurious
When this whole curiosity enterprise got started, I never really contemplated having THREE HUNDRED curiosity conversations.
That's a lot of delight and insight and wonderfulness.
I am grateful to everyone who has talked with me, listened to us, & supported this brave little effort along the way.
That's a lot of delight and insight and wonderfulness.
I am grateful to everyone who has talked with me, listened to us, & supported this brave little effort along the way.
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
When this whole curiosity enterprise got started, I never really contemplated having THREE HUNDRED curiosity conversations.
That's a lot of delight and insight and wonderfulness.
I am grateful to everyone who has talked with me, listened to us, & supported this brave little effort along the way.
That's a lot of delight and insight and wonderfulness.
I am grateful to everyone who has talked with me, listened to us, & supported this brave little effort along the way.
“Kiku” is a Japanese word for listen. It is comprised of smaller characters and "the secret alchemy of listening: an ear 耳 on the left and fourteen 十四 hearts 心 on the right …conjuring a person listening with the energy of fourteen hearts.”
Think what that means...
lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
Think what that means...
lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
Curiosity & Listening with the Energy of Fourteen Hearts, with Haru Yamada
“Kiku” is a Japanese word for listen. It is comprised of smaller characters that together, as Haru Yamada puts it, “generate the secret alchemy of listening: an ear 耳 on the left and fourteen 十四 heart...
lynnborton.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“Kiku” is a Japanese word for listen. It is comprised of smaller characters and "the secret alchemy of listening: an ear 耳 on the left and fourteen 十四 hearts 心 on the right …conjuring a person listening with the energy of fourteen hearts.”
Think what that means...
lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
Think what that means...
lynnborton.com/2025/10/09/c...
"There's a difference between just being curious and choosing curiosity," says Sam Furness.
🧐 Where do you think the difference lies?
Listen to our delightful conversation about curiosity and creative quests: lynnborton.com/2025/10/02/a...
🧐 Where do you think the difference lies?
Listen to our delightful conversation about curiosity and creative quests: lynnborton.com/2025/10/02/a...
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"There's a difference between just being curious and choosing curiosity," says Sam Furness.
🧐 Where do you think the difference lies?
Listen to our delightful conversation about curiosity and creative quests: lynnborton.com/2025/10/02/a...
🧐 Where do you think the difference lies?
Listen to our delightful conversation about curiosity and creative quests: lynnborton.com/2025/10/02/a...