An inquisitive nature, which predisposes us to learn from everybody, feeds our cognitive empathy, amplifying our understanding of other people’s worlds. One successful executive who exemplifies this attitude put it this way: “I’ve always just wanted to learn everything, to understand anybody that I was around—why they thought what they did, why they did what they did, what worked for them, and what didn’t work.”
— Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (Daniel Goleman), Loc. 1319–22
So me!