{"id":31041,"date":"2011-05-30T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/well-i-think-that-insatiable-curiosity-is-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:00:06","slug":"well-i-think-that-insatiable-curiosity-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/well-i-think-that-insatiable-curiosity-is-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Well, I think that insatiable curiosity is important in a time dominated by complexity and dynamism, because you have so many things you need to understand. For the last 20 years, insatiable curiosity has been really important. <\/p>\n<p>I think in order to do one or two big things, you have to know many little things. I think it\u2019s also important in a complex time with a lot of dynamism to be able to relate to all different kinds of people, because, in the end, most political power depends more on persuasion rather than coercion. <\/p>\n<p>And then I think you have to be able to reconcile the complexities and order them in a pattern. For a lot of people who just follow the evening news or read the morning paper, it\u2019s like the political equivalent of chaos theory in physics. <\/p>\n<p>But your job, if you\u2019re a leader, is to take superficially random events and organize them into patterns that tell you what you should do to maximize an opportunity or head off the problem. <\/p>\n<p>Being decisive in the face of complexity and ambiguity is important. Being able to make a call, to decide to act, and then figuring out how to act to support that decision. Yes, be curious; yes, appreciate the complexity and ambiguity; but then organize into patterns and decide what you\u2019re going to do and execute.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/05\/bill-clinton-there-are-no-great-generations-just-different-problems\/239293\/\">Bill Clinton<\/a> talks with The Atlantic correspondent Brian Till about leadership and\u00a0curiosity. Read more at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/05\/bill-clinton-there-are-no-great-generations-just-different-problems\/239293\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">theatlantic<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I think that insatiable curiosity is important in a time dominated by complexity and dynamism, because you have so many things you need to understand. For the last 20 years, insatiable curiosity has been really important. I think in order to do one or two big things, you have to know many little things. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-84F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}