What is a Curious Realizer - a manifesto in progress
Curious and realize both have two meanings which combine into a special kind of person
The following is a minor epiphany of where I’d like to take things going forward. It’s very much a draft and subject to change but it definitely feels right to me.
Being a Curious Realizer is an approach to dealing with a chaotic, troubling world that tries to put people in inescapable boxes and makes them follow predetermined paths.
We are Curious: we want to know more about the world: what it has to offer, how it works, what it has to teach us.
We are Curious: we are traveling our own, different paths - some consider us nerds, geeks, eccentrics, odd, strange, weird or offbeat but we are definitely distinctive!
We are Realizers: we learn, question, test, discuss and form our opinions based on facts and feelings.
We are Realizers: we take ideas and we use them to make things of all sorts.
A Curious Realizer does these things, from tentative starts to the point of habit:
We Discover
We Consider
We Experiment
We Realize
Are you a Curious Realizer?
I appreciate any feedback that you might have about this!
There’s a great questionnaire that focuses on our positive traits (vs whatever is “wrong” with us), it might inform your self-discovery further.
It takes about 30-40 min, so get snacks 😅
https://viacharacter.org
Gosh, Mark, how fascinating. Am I a curious realiser? (sorry for British English autocorrect - I'm leaving it as is, though!).
I'm not sure. I'm interested in the world but habitually constrain myself to conventions. Need to give this some thought!