And I never was an operational engineer or scientist, but when I got into space, really what you are is just a kid. Your inquisitive , and it's just crazy. Some of you may have seen this.
You need to know what was involved so you can interpret the data. Endlessly inquisitive . And, I think, if we can rekindle that spirit and allow ourselves to move into modes that are less focused, we
But I was more interested-- I realized I was an inquisitive kid like many of us who grew up to become scientists. We're just inquisitive about the world around you. And for me, I wanted to understand why was it that the music was sounding interesting rather than playing the music.
All of that notwithstanding, some people still had questions that needed to be answered. Some people were still vaccine inquisitive . No, they were not anti-vax and no, they weren't even anti-science.
everyone and that still works there really just has that Curiosity at their core uh that's sort of the brand uh company brand is just to be inquisitive about stuff and to not kind of uh sleep through life and um I imagine you guys are kind of all the same way you know just sort of pay attention in the world
to make a breakthrough about-- or in regards to researching and understanding the mind. Google being a place full of very inquisitive minds certainly has a lot of opportunities for questions from the audience. And so to prepare for your talk, we've asked Google at large, all around the world, to submit questions.
Let them wash over you like a wave. And I started getting really inquisitive .
Palomar Hotel my home tonight so yeah all right well I want to open um questions up to the googlers because I know you all are very inquisitive so any questions welcome to Google first of all well thanks um when you were a contestant on Top Chef there were many occasions where you it seemed like you didn't quite agree with the judge's opinion right and uh now as a
depleted or temperatures rise or there's overpopulation um not to say that these as a whole in terms of inspiring inquisitiveness in the people who are looking at it and also educating us about what's going on on our planet
We already know that when community and science meet, science advances faster, vaccine refusal turns into vaccine acceptance. Actually, when vaccine inquisitive meets a scientist on a date, it turns into a marriage. You know, one thing about this is that my husband still has questions every single time we take our children to get their vaccines.
And I stayed in there, and the first thing I did is I just turned the lights out. And for those who know me know I'm quite inquisitive .
the kinds of thinking that you're talking about but mine is this particular um kind of field I know it's AAL topic but thank you thank you very much so the inquisitive minds of Google nobody hi uh thanks for speaking to us um so you mentioned these kind of this this technology
So I start off with concert piano. But I was more interested-- I realized I was an inquisitive kid like many of us who grew up to become scientists. We're just inquisitive about the world around you.
"To me, Caravaggio's rendering conveys two profound messages that go beyond the words of the Gospel's text. One sees first that Jesus does not resist Thomas' inquisitive examination but rather welcomes it. And one sees that Thomas is fascinated and excited to discover that reality conforms to his deepest hopes.
And my own kids ask me questions. We have other parents who tell us that they have very inquisitive children who ask questions about what's going on, what's the motivation that's going on with particular characters. And parents can sort of adapt their answers to their child at the appropriate age.
lot better about myself. I just try to remain as natural and inquisitive as I can, like when I first started, when I was a kid. Yeah. That's really cool.
Great. Vaccine technology is going to go on and on and on, but I like to believe that vaccine hesitancy does not have to go on and on and on with it. If researchers would just open their minds to vaccine inquisitiveness, in the same way that we open our mind to scientific inquisitiveness. If community and science were to meet.
distinction often between what we call leadership in a generic sense and leadership in a global sense also you have very general characteristics such as Global Savvy or inquisitiveness that are hard to implement on a daily basis or another uh tendency is that so-called Global behaviors are again in a in a
She's very smart. She's very inquisitive .
I mean, I'm just sort of an inquisitive type of person.
means for the planet so for me these were never just pretty pictures there was always a deeper story to tell and something that I wanted to interest people and get them to be inquisitive about the planet so uh after doing this for a couple months for whatever reason one day uh I got up the courage to write Fast Company an email and said my name
And I got more than a second date out of this guy. I got my first understanding of what I now like to call “vaccine inquisitiveness.” It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get himself vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated.
That's very cool. So you are one of those people with just a continually inquisitive mind, which is always good, and that growth mindset is always so helpful.
And one thing I will credit the anthropologists of the late 19th and early 20th century with is they were incredibly inquisitive ,
Dolphins are the sweetest creatures that you will see, and they are so very inquisitive .
In fact, I have a friend who has nicknamed me Inquisitive Stephanie.
Arctic fox would come up near my camp late in the day, beautiful inquisitive .
What is that? So, inquisitive person that I am, I said, hey, what's a Chinese fire drill?
It's understanding how it behaves, and just being incredibly inquisitive about just such a specific item.
Nobody knows why, but the dwarf minke whales there become incredibly inquisitive to boats and people in the water.
I think that, in this room, we have some of the most inquisitive , energetic, creative minds on the planet.
Also it makes a nice, looking-up-at the field science crew photo, which is-- I always they looked inquisitive , so like to use it.
How many of you in this room think that you, perhaps, have a good pallet or at least an inquisitive one?
Jeff Freburg: Great. So, I'm gonna open up questions to our audience 'cause we have a very inquisitive audience, I'm sure.
Obviously, you had to stop at some point, um and maybe the more inquisitive children here would still be wondering if they had heard the answer or not,
we were playin' in San Francisco and, uh, because I do have kind of an inquisitive mind I-- I kind of feel like I'm looking at you out here at you and I'm --
My favorite definition, I think, that you used in the book to talk about curiosity was you said it was "inquisitiveness untethered to acquisition."
And I think all of this comes naturally to us, this kind of humility and question asking and inquisitiveness.
Any of you who spend any time with a four-year-old at bedtime, knows about this inquisitiveness, right?