Seek

How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World

By: Scott Shigeoka

Narrated by: Scott Shigeoka

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

“Most people recognize the value of curiosity, but few know how to unleash it. Seek will help you close the gap between awareness and action. Scott Shigeoka’s thirst for understanding and connection is contagious, and his book is a timely bridge for our divided world.”―Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

Open your mind, heal your relationships, and connect across divides with this "energizing, creative, and exciting" (Gretchen Rubin) approach to deep curiosity from an internationally-recognized curiosity expert—perfect for fans of Atlas of the Heart and Talking to Strangers.

Did you know that curiosity is your superpower? It’s no secret that division, loneliness, and polarization are on the rise—to catastrophic impact on our personal lives. While we often think of curiosity as a personality trait, internationally-recognized curiosity expert Scott Shigeoka knows that it’s actually the most potent tool we have to bridge our differences and heal relationships: From political blow-ups to age divides at work; religious differences to languishing friendships; gun rights to gender rights.

In Seek, Shigeoka blends cutting edge research on curiosity with wisdom from years of grassroots community work and the stories of people living at the threshold of deep curiosity—ancient wayfinders in the Pacific Ocean, Catholic nuns and Millennial seekers sharing a convent, a wildland firefighter in Montana, and more—as he takes listeners on a journey to understand the power of deep curiosity.

With the support of Shigoeka’s four-phase DIVE model, listeners will learn to...

• Detach—Let go of their ABCs (assumptions, biases, certainty),
• Intend—Prepare their mindset and setting,
• Value—See the dignity of every person, including themselves,
• Embrace—Welcome the hard times in their life,

...As they unlock the capacity for connection, healing, and personal growth.

With electric vulnerability, thoughtful storytelling, and actionable tools, Seek calls each of us to stop turning away from what is unfamiliar, uncomfortable or unknown and, instead, embrace our power to seek.

"We've been hiding from each other for far too long. Seek offers us an empathic, practical and heartfelt road map forward."―Seth Godin, author of The Song of Significance

©2023 Scott Sky Keoni Shigeoka (P)2023 Balance

Critic reviews

"Within the large subject of happiness, curiosity is such an energizing, creative, and exciting topic to explore. Scott Keoni Shigeoka is the perfect person to tackle this subject, and I can’t wait to read this book."—Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and The Four Tendencies

"Grounded in science and stories, Scott Shigeoka's exploration of curiosity is full of energy and wisdom. I have no doubt his methodology will offer a path of healing for many."—Jud Brewer MD PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety and director of research and innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center

"Scott Shigeoka is one of the world’s leading voices on bridging differences. In our lonely, polarized world, Seek couldn’t come at a better time."—Adam Smiley Poswolsky, bestselling author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough and Friendship in the Age of Loneliness

Entertaining and practical

I loved seeing the author's personality come through and really appreciated all of the application exercises. I hope to become a more curious person and a more effective curiosity advocate in my workplace and personal life. Thanks Scott for being so vulnerable!

Curiosity is now my word of the year!

Thanks for inspiring me to be more curious and sharing your learnings. I loved the stories you shared and would love to hear more of them!

Enjoyable and Insightful

The narrator, being the author, is pleasant to listen to. I found his book to be more of a personal commentary on how to be open to learning about different people, cultures and personalities - those that are different from our own. Basically, we should all take a personal interest in others, a basic and kind interest. He writes about his own experiences. For someone who not good at socializing at functions, this book might be helpful to be more flexible and chatty with meeting new people.

Not sure

Same vibe, voice scale, tone and message in every chapter. This kept putting me to sleep and I barely got through the book without thinking am I going to learn something new.