Todd Kashdan
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Oct 8, 2026
PennyHOST
If you don't listen, the only certainty you achieve is that you'll be bored and boring because you aren't learning a thing." Even psychology backs this up.
PennyHOST
Leading researcher Todd Kashdan found that when people get trapped by anxiety and avoidance, like in early studies on panic disorders that he did, their curiosity gets left unfulfilled, leading to massive regrets over missed opportunities.
PennyHOST
But when we look at his broader modern work, including the M Workplace Curiosity Scale, it says we aren't just curious or not.
PennyHOST
Curiosity shows up in totally different ways.
Jodi WellmanHOST
Mm-hmm.
Michael F. StegerHOST
They just recycle generic advice, right? Um, [laughs] if you, yeah, if you're curious if there's gonna be a book that has excellent advice written by two people, me and, myself and Todd Kashdan, who've, like, built the field, yeah, there's gonna be a book about that, right? But you, you point to a, a trickier thing in addition, right, which is people are at different places, really different places, and have different tastes for what they wanna engage in.
Michael F. StegerHOST
Exactly what you just said, right? So, so where my critique of the worst purpose advice I've ever heard is, is that it repeats a lot of things that make people feel comfortable.
Jodi WellmanHOST
Mm-hmm.