curious people

Last week I posted from stumble upon an article about ‘genuine people’ that spoke to me. This week I am writing about ‘curious people’.

This came from a STRIVE event (creating and unblocking business for everyone) I attended on behalf of a team colleague last Thursday. A group of new social entrepreneurs were going before a Dragons Den style panel to mark the culmination of a 12 week course. The course was funded between three housing associations – Peabody, Hyde and Wandle and run by Enterprise Cube.

The concept of curious people, rather like the concept of Sunday assembly, is I feel an idea that has its time. https://hazeldurbridge.com/sunday-assembly-live-better-help-often-and-wonder-more/

Curious people ‘connect with others who walk with their eyes open’. www.curious-people.co.uk

‘We are an offline social network of intellectually curious people. A community of thinkers, collaborating through discussion, exploring ideas and challenging each other’s thoughts’.

I was inspired to hear one of the co-founders Malcolm Harriott speak. The website needs a bit of filling out – they should do some utube style clips of themselves talking because they are charismatic and believable. The logo is amazing. They could start just selling T-shirts on line.  Go and have a look and support them.

Quite how they are going to make enough money from it to live on I am not sure.  This week I also watched a TV programme about ‘rich kids spending’.  What was actually more fascinating about this programme was how the four young men featured had become millionaires in the first place.  One guy was from the traveller community and owned a mobile home park as well as having a warehouse full of stuff he was shifting.  There was an Asian guy who had started a successful clothing business on the back of one word ‘ratchet’- he made in to T shirts.  A black guy who never went to uni but did the stock market and was lovely to his Mum who had come over from Nigeria with £10 in her pocket and a gay guy who had come out on utube as a teenager and had enormous eyes to match a gigantic following of teenage girls.  It’s good to see the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and kicking.