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Kitab padhi - A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer

I stumbled on an interview with the film producer Brian Grazer.   He is very noticeable in a crowd I would assume with his gelled pointy hair style and lean face that appears curious.

The book (A curious mind) is his journey through the last few decades of him being CURIOUS.

I agree with his basic premise in that not too many of us retain our early stage curiosity as we age.  That I feel is our biggest loss.  With our fancy degrees and high faluting job titles and chasing other material accouterments we tend to lose sight of what really matters.

It was someone's curiosity and the need to ask WHY or HOW  that got us to where we are from where we had been.  From travel by car to flight and from reading books to having the world in your pocket a la smart phones curiosity has paved the way to make new ideas fruition.  It also helped Heinz develop a ketchup bottle that stands upside down and let out enough with a simple squeeze.

His book partly reads like a memoir wherein he narrates his experience of being just a mediocre nobody to really taking chances and risk in life to get to some place else.  The book is filled with myriad interviews that Brian had with people from all walks of life usually at the top of their game.

That he along with his friend and director Ron Howard are A-list celebs in the Hollywood circuit with a number of famous flicks to their credit (and I actually enjoyed some of them - Apollo 13, Rush, A Beautiful Mind etc.) helped him get an audience with world elites - from Carlos Slim (richest person category and master businessman from Mexico) to the guy that discovered the polio vaccine to a NASA astronaut and with Isaac Asimov.

By being bold to ask questions you realize what you don't know.  Not knowing is good because it keeps you desiring for more (information) and curiosity serves as the vehicle to satiate that desire.

As part of my homage to the author I will look forward to the next movie he produces.

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