Curiosity can instantly connect you with anyone. It’s what sets us apart from robots and it’s a key factor behind curing cancer, stopping terrorism, and resolving interpersonal conflicts. Meanwhile, international travel is the ideal laboratory for putting your curiosity to work.
This is a book about the power of curiosity to improve the way we travel. Rooted in decades of research on curiosity and cultural intelligence, David Livermore explores the key research behind curiosity and exemplifies it through exploring the dilemmas faced when traveling abroad. These include quandaries like:
- Why do people always cut in line here?
- Why do they eat the fish eye?
- Why would someone give me the wrong directions instead of just telling me they don’t know?
In addition, the book provides practical travel tips on everything from exchanging money, traveling on a budget, and dealing with jet lag. This book will equip you to leverage the power of curiosity and travel to make you happier, to connect with others, and to solve problems big and small.
Table of Content
Prologue
Part I: Pack Your Curiosity and Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
1. The Power of Curiosity
2. The Power of Cultural Intelligence
Part II: Traveling Dilemmas
3. Dilemma: Where’s the Queue?
4. Dilemma: Do I Eat the Eye?
5. Dilemma: You Have 84 Kids?
6. Dilemma: Why Does “Yes” Mean “No”?
7. Dilemma: What Do You Mean by “Now”?
Part III: Travel Guide for the Curious Traveler
8. Practices of the Curious Traveler
9. Tips for the Curious Traveler
The Curiosity Challenge
Epilogue
Appendix: Ten Cultural Value Dimensions
Acknowledgements
About the author
David Livermore, Ph D is the author of several bestselling books on cultural intelligence and global leadership. His travels have taken him to more than 100 countries around the world working with universities, Fortune 500 companies, and governments. His work has been cited in The Economist, Forbes, The New York Times, BBC, NBC, and other international media. He and his family have spent the last twenty years curiously traveling the world and they don’t plan to stop anytime soon.
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