Curiosity expands our minds and widens our horizons. With KZSM 104.1FM/KZSM.org, you can “Choose to Be Curious” every Tuesday from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Host Lynn Borton’s unique broadcast features some research and theory, but “mostly it’s conversations about how curiosity shows up in work and life,” her website explained. Some guests are academic researchers, like the psychologist who studies morbid curiosity (not necessarily a bad thing, apparently); other guests demonstrate “applied curiosity” about pretty much anything. Upcoming episodes will focus on birding, food trends, high school debate and playing the cello.
Lynn gets ideas and finds guests from reading and surfing the internet, and “sometimes I spin up long lists of topics I think would be fun to explore and then I try to figure out who can talk with me about them.” Tuesday’s show will feature Rob Walker, author of the book “The Art of Noticing” and the Substack newsletter of the same name — 'a fabulous and wildly varied collection of ways and things to notice,” as she described it.
Curiosity can be transformational, for both host and listeners.
