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I’m never the smartest guy in any room. But I’m often way more curious than the others.

 

·      Knowing 

·      That we don’t know

·      Often helps us learn more.

·      Because we’re open to the idea 

·      That there’s so much more to learn. 

 

When debriefing after the opening of The Mirage, it was painfully obvious that we needed to learn more about how computers could help improve our HR practices and processes. We had contract developers build a new HRIS for this opening and were shocked that they messed up something called the source code; maybe more shocking was the fact we didn’t know much about source codes. At that point we hired more consultants to tell us what to do next. While they were making proposals, we became curious about how computers worked and what they really were capable of, learning that computers in the 1990s were bulky and not very user-friendly. The internet was not widely used yet, so most people used their computers only for basic tasks like word processing and playing simple games. We did more research, took some community college courses, and learned about the real potential of computing. That passionate curiosity led to designing systems that radically changed how HR was done. Over the next dozen years, our passion for learning led to one of the first fully paperless back-office systems. What we lacked in talent, we more than made up for with curiosity. Be passionately curious today.

 

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955): German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time.