Task #9: Curious Explorers, Part 2

As well as Luis the volunteer coordinator, I also had the opportunity over the summer to spend some time with an old friend. Close your eyes and think of what a ‘Curious Explorer’ would be like. Bright and lively, constantly open to experience, not fearless but too interested to let opportunities [...]

Exercise #1: Writing my values

And so back after a three week break – pretty refreshed, and with lots of ideas and thoughts for curiosity and emotion in tow. More on this later. But this morning I sat down and began the Exercises in Todd Kashdan’s book Curious? – not in the order that I’ve picked [...]

Task #4: Meaning in Life

Friday night, and I have one more task on my to-do list for today: Baseline Task #4 from Todd’s book, Curious? (I hope first name terms are acceptable now we’re Twitter followers). This one is the Meaning in Life Questionnaire.
It measures how much you find your existence to be significant. Below [...]

Task #3 Acceptance and Action

The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (or AAQ-2 – sounds like a gun) measures psychological flexibility. I hope it’s more than my physical flexibility – I’ve just taken up meditation, and sitting on the floor comfortably is tougher than a ten mile run. In Curious?, psychological flexibility is also described as “the [...]

Task #2: Wants, Needs, Addictions

A more audience friendly blog post coming tomorrow, but for tonight I just completed the second of the Baselines tasks from Curious? – the Basic Psychological Needs Scale.
It measures, well, what it says on the tin: are my basic pyschological needs being met? While typing up the form to be able to [...]

Task #1: ‘curious explorers’

As I’ve written about in The Tasks, I’m going through all the exercises in Todd Kashdan’s book Curious? to see how much of a ‘curious explorer’ I can become in my challenge to be a full-time writer and overcome anxiety disorder.
The first six exercises are all ‘baseline’ exercises to evaluate where [...]