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Lynn Borton
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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
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"Let's lower the threshold for 'oooh, that's weird! That's curious. What's up with THAT?'" and other good advice about choosing to be curious from @johnmuirlaws.com and @wildwonder.bsky.social

Link below to listen
Birds fly in a wild flock in a green sky over a city skyline
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"Beauty is where you choose to find it," @johnmuirlaws.com @wildwonder.bsky.social reminds me at the end of our absolutely delightful conversation about curiosity and nature journaling.

Link below...
Dried, open seed pods with what appear to be dead stems and leaves
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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"I notice...
I wonder...
It reminds me..."

@johnmuirlaws.com of @wildwonder.bsky.social offers an easy way to pay attention to the wild wonderful world around us.

Link to listen below
A tidal marsh with blue sky and clouds reflected in the water
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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On this day for gratitude, slow down to the speed of wonder.

Join me and @johnmuirlaws.com in some intentional curiosity: lynnborton.com/2025/11/27/c...

@wildwonder.bsky.social
a small footpath winds through tall grasses
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A #curiosity practice pro tip for the holidays from Ashley Kirsner, founder of Skip the Small Talk:

Ask, "what was that like for you?"

An invitation to go deeper -- or not -- and a low-risk way to keep the conversation going.

Link to full curiosity conversation below.
High-rise buildings in a futuristic city emerge from clouds. Across wks are words "Curiosity Practice: Ask, "what was that like for you?""
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"It's really hard, unless you've been actively practice it, to be curious when you're not feeling safe," said my wise guest Ashley Kirsner founder of Skip the Small Talk.

Great convo re having meaningful conversations -- starting with complete strangers.

PLUS: Great tips for the holidays. Link ⬇️
a dock on a lake with mountains in the background and a parasailed up in the sky. Across the image is written, "It's really hard, unless you've been actively practice it, to be curious when you're not feeling safe."
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"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...
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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"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...
Old Chinese tea pots are lined up against a wall. Above them are the words, ""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."
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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"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...
An aged bamboo fence recedes into the background. Across the image are the words, "Everything is our teacher."
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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"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...
A dock reaches out toward lake horizon with mountains in the distance.
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"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...
A golden mowed field disappears to the horizon with a vidid blue sky and fluffy clouds. Across the whole image are the words "Being in disability has tripped away my tendency to make assumptions...and, her than assuming, listening...Really trying to understand what someone's human, bodily, mental experience is."
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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...
A bright blue sky shows through a network of wires and stretched geometric canvases, with the words "To use connection as a tool, connection can't be the goal."
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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"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...
Only the lower half of two women's bodies are visible as they walk along a sun-drenched boardwalk together. Their shadow stretch toward the viewer, the beach is behind them. Across the boardwalk are the words, "There's something different that happens when another person is asking you the question."
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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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...
What appears to be a can of red paint spills down stone steps -- but it is an art installation. "Once you see it, you can't not see it." is written around the edges of the picture.
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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"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...
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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"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...
"Curiosity is the antidote to hopelessness." in bright in pink letters on a deep turquoise background
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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...
Stool with thin metal legs and a large wood seat is backlit by sunlight on a balcony. Though the balcony railing buildings across the street are visible.
October 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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...
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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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
October 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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.
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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"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...
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"You get to that moment, saying 'Should I do that, should I not do that?' and you're like, 'Well, I'm on a quest. Surely the answer is just do it!'" ~ Sam Furness

A lovely conversation about #curiosity's place in our creative journeys. I hope you will listen: lynnborton.com/2025/10/02/a...
October 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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"That's what curiosity is to me," says Sam Furness, "It's an invitation to step through a lens into seeing the world differently. And on the other side of that door is creativity."

Link to our wonderful conversation: The Creative Quester's Guide to Curiosity, with Sam Furness in comments.
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM