If you’re afraid of the future, be a part of creating it.
And that starts with curiosity.
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Here’s what I’ve learned. When you’re curious, you can’t be fearful.
Fear protects what was. Curiosity builds what’s next.
They can’t coexist.
CURIOSITY → leads to CREATIVITY CREATIVITY → leads to REINVENTION REINVENTION → leads to RELEVANCE
Everyone wants to be relevant. Beebs is the talk of the world after Coachella.
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When I retired and moved to the country, I got curious about farming. In particular, Wagyu beef farming. I got to know the local farmers. Registered on all the chat groups. Read the books. Bought some Black Angus and crossbred them with some Wagyu bulls. Mean looking bastards.
I had spreadsheets predicting beef prices versus repayments on the property. I went deep. Curiosity turning me into a Wagyu beef farmer.
Obviously that didn’t work out very well. Beef prices plummeted. The farm deal went south.
And now I’m travelling the world working with brilliantly curious entrepreneurs and building our own AI platform to help advisors, investors, and entrepreneurs be more successful, faster.
Still curious.
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But that’s just one chapter.
Me, Motorbike obsessed.
As a kid it was bicycles. Motorbikes. Animals. Tractors. Camping. Swimming in creeks. Catching marron. Surfing. Scuba diving. Girls.
Then philosophy. Ambition. Writing. Producing. Directing. Editing. The creative process.
Then building a business, satisfying clients. Brands. Staff. Making money. Leadership. Making a difference. Global Citizen. OzHarvest. A fresh food business that tanked whilat trying tho help farmers.
And yes, stupid things too. Wine. Watches. Art. Sports cars. Four-wheel drives. Running shoes. Fashion. Horse riding. hang on, horse riding ain’t stupid.
And now…. entrepreneurs. Wisdom. Spirituality. AI.
The objects change. The obsession doesn’t.
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James Dyson built 5,127 prototypes of his vacuum cleaner. 5,126 failures before he got it right. He wasn’t frustrated by the failures. He was fascinated by them. “Failure is interesting,” he said. “It’s part of making progress. You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure.”
That’s curiosity. Not the surface level “I wonder what that is” curiosity. The deep, obsessive, I-will-understand-this-thing curiosity that builds empires.
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The most successful humans I know are curious about each other. About relationships. About mother nature, business, philosophy, technology, geopolitics, macroeconomics. Interesting deep things.
They’re not skimming. They’re digging. They’re asking questions that don’t have easy answers. They’re sitting with the discomfort of not knowing. someone once said to me, “You start a business because you subconsciously want to get to know yourself better and faster than you otherwise normally would.” C U R I O S I T Y.
Curiosity is a superpower.
A billionaire in his 80s call every speaker at his digital forum to set up one-on-one meetings. A Holocaust survivor. One of the largest retail empires in the world. Still asking questions. If we are not curious, we are just breathing.
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But curiosity alone doesn’t change the world.
My compadre Alfie Dawson – founder of Bordeaux & Burgundy in New York — gave me a gift last time I was there. Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality. The New York Times bestseller.
One line rings between my ears.
“All it takes for something extraordinary to happen is one person with enthusiasm.”
Curiosity is the engine. Enthusiasm is the fuel.
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The people who fear AI are the ones who’ve stopped asking questions. They’ve stopped learning. They’ve decided the world they knew is the world they want to keep.
But the world doesn’t work that way.
The entrepreneurs who thrive are the ones who jup in. Who say “I don’t understand this yet” and mean it. Who treat every new technology, every market shift, every disruption as an invitation.
The more you understand that you don’t know, the more you become a learner. And entrepreneurs are lifelong learners.
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The world needs more curious people solving problems.
Your vote won’t change the world. But your ideas will.
The future belongs to the curious.
Create New Futures.
