Curiosity, creativity and AI

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today’s discussion should land you right in the sweetspot of thinking about AI for your own job by taking a step back, by asking yourself how you can connect with AI and why you should.

Today’s guest Professor Costas Andriopoulos explain curiosity is the engine of creativity. And by striving to be curious our minds will surprise us with the creativity that results.

There was a wonderful piece of work five years ago by Francesco Gino from Harvard Business School that looked into curiosity.

It found that of more than 3,000 employees from a wide range of firms and industries, only about 24% reported feeling curious in their jobs on a regular basis, and about 70% said they face barriers to asking more questions at work.

In a study of 120 employees it was found that natural curiosity was associated with better job performance, as evaluated by their direct bosses.

In the survey of more than 3,000 employees mentioned earlier, 92% credited curious people with bringing new ideas into teams and organizations and viewed curiosity as a catalyst for job satisfaction, motivation, innovation, and high performance.

Professor Costas Andriopoulous is a Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School, City of London University.

Links for today:

Professor Costas' book: Purposeful Curiosity: How asking the right questions will change your life

Promptbase - is a marketplace for AI prompts (you’ll get the best value from it if you sign up for a paid subscription on Midjourney). Here’s my own experiments

If you’re interested in generative AI for business then the posts by Ethan Mollick are essential to follow (‘Come up with names for a pasta restaurant Now read the Igor Naming Guide on how to name companies, give me better suggestions. Check those names for trademark violations. Make up unique names that won't violate trademark, explain them’)

I find that having inspiration can prompt your own imagination and this gallery can give you ideas.

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0:00.0	If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square.
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0:10.1	It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week.
0:18.0	Join at Square.com. Square, big in restaurants.
0:22.0	Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic
0:26.1	Money Regulations 2011.
0:27.7	Registered reference number 900846. This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a podcast about workplace culture, psychology and life. I'm Bruce Tazley. Hello, thank you for joining me again.
0:47.0	Over the course of this series of episodes, I've tried to focus on really timely issues and this one's very much in keeping with that. It's impossible to move from
0:56.8	and escape from discussions of AI right now. At the start of this year I wrote a
1:00.6	newsletter or at the end of last year actually I wrote a newsletter that said we should expect our jobs to change this year
1:07.1	with the implications of machine learning and AI and three months into the year I think that's looking like a pretty safe
1:14.2	prediction I'm always struck by how certain industries embrace new technologies if you
1:19.6	ever go into a toy shop or especially a novelty shop, selling novelty toys, you can often find
1:25.5	yourself surprised by their use of new technology, gimmicky faddy technologies that
1:31.2	are just incorporating brand new things.
1:33.0	Anyone who's looked at the latest drones might be surprised by how cutting edge they strive to be.
1:39.0	I was reading about selfie drones a few weeks ago,
1:41.0	drones whose job it is to capture a gorgeous looking photograph of you.
1:46.3	And the idea of the use of technology by industries like that is always humbling, I think,
1:52.3	because it reminds us how slow that we can be to adapt
1:56.3	to new changing technologies ourselves.
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