The Leadership Skill Nobody Talks About (But Changes Everything)
Most of us, when faced with challenges, instinctively seek certainty and answers. In turn, our ego steps in and prompts us to defend our views, double down, or perhaps disengage.
But what if the real superpower in challenging conversations isn’t being right, it’s being curious?Curiosity often takes a back seat to certainty and gets labeled as a soft skill, which makes it sound obvious and easy.
In reality, it’s anything but.It requires a disciplined practice that takes humility, self-awareness, and courage. It takes being willing to set aside the need to be right in favor of the desire to understand.
I consider curiosity the lifeblood of productive dialogue. It’s what shifts us from the role of the knower, rigid, certain, closed, to the role of the learner, open, exploratory, and engaged.When we approach a conversation as knowers, we enter with a fixed mindset: I’m right; I need to convince them.
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