A main / component of creativity / is inquiry: // Inquiry / is about / building curiosity. // And / what is curiosity? // Well, / Ian Leslie / has a great / definition of curiosity. // He says that, / "Being curious / is the product / of an information gap." // You need to know / just a little bit / about something / to be curious. // Inquiry / is all about / a shift away / from 'only with certain' / to asking new / and different sorts of questions. // And we really want / to encourage those / really / big picture, / expansive questions.// There is / what I call / a "Taxonomy / of Questions." // There are/ 'diverging / questions,' / questions such as / "Why?" / and / "What if...?" / and / "I wonder...?" / I think / there's literally / nothing bad / that follows / the phrase / "I wonder..." // The other / group of questions are / what I would call more / 'convergent questions.' // They help us / to get / more tactical, / so questions / such as / "What?" / and / "Where?" / and / "When?" // And in / some of our organizations, / those / tend to be / the sorts of questions / that we focus on, / but / we wanna be able / to really integrate / both / of those categories / of questions / to build curiosity. // We live / in incredibly / ambiguous times, / and / in our educational systems / and a lot of our / corporate environments /, we want / to lean / into certainty. // We want to lean / into: / 'What is the answer?' / But / the reality is / we don't have / all the answers. // The challenge / when we're only / myopically / focused on / what is / the right answer, / is that / we lose / sight / of opportunities / that are right / in front of us. // Technology is ubiquitous, / and / in a lot of ways, / we / as humans, will be replaced / by automation, / robotics, / etc. // We're constantly saying / that we want to innovate, / but if / we want to innovate / in a consistent / and sustainable way / what I think / we need to remember / is that / what makes us uniquely human / is creativity. // If we want / to get greater, / more innovative output, / we must / be willing / to ask new and / different questions, / and we must / embrace / creativity. //