Did you know curiosity didn't kill the cat? Find out why as Jennifer Zientz and Cassini Nazir get curious in this conversation with Perspectives Matter host Jim Falk. Explore the role of possibility thinking as we age, how social media can grow curious communities, and ideas for boosting workplace culture and staving off burnout.
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"We all want to agile, adaptable, able to figure out when something goes wrong or right. We want choices, and recognizing choices requires us to be flexible in our thinking. Curiosity helps us keep that flexibility. The motivation to explore keeps us active and engaged in our lives, helping keep us healthy, from a brain health perspective, as we get older."
– Jennifer Zientz, MS, CCC,SLP, Director of Programs, Head of Clinical Services at Center for BrainHealth
Following up his recent BrainHealth Presents talk, design educator Cassini Nazir elaborates on the importance of curiosity in learning and the human experience, and the natural relationship between curiosity and memory.
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"If you can invite people to be curious about an experience ... in that moment, I don't know what happens in the brain, but as a designer we know it's important to enable those situations to occur because if you can invite someone to be curious, they are going to have a much more powerful memory.)
– Cassini Nazir, Assistant Professor College of Visual Arts and Design at University of North Texas
Bonnie Pitman, former director of the Dallas Museum of Art, explores how to use observation to foster empathy and compassion, discussing the transformative impact of close observation on empathy, compassion and daily life.
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX) and Center for BrainHealth have partnered to bring the BrainHealth Patch Program to Girl Scouts of all levels, empowering girls to focus on brain health while promoting possibility thinking and social resilience.