The Esade Entrepreneurship Institute and the Esade MBA are pleased to invite you to the “Masterclass on Purposeful Curiosity” by Prof. Constantine Andropoulos.
We are constantly bombarded by a flood of information through social media, texts, email, and streaming services that distract us from seeking deeper understanding and knowledge. And yet when we dedicate time to hone our interests and expertise, curiosity – if harnessed purposefully – can take us to unexpected places and provide new paths to fulfilment and success. Based on interviews with hyper-curious people – including Formula One engineers, scientists working to grow food on Mars, polar explorers, athletes, and Michelin-starred chefs, I will explain how accomplished individuals cut through the ‘noise’ of information overload and use the productive power of curiosity to discover, create and succeed.
Agenda:
🔥Are you ready to use the power of curiosity for success?🔥
We are constantly bombarded by a flood of information through social media, texts, email, and streaming services, which distracts us from seeking deeper understanding and knowledge. And yet when we dedicate time to our interests and expertise, curiosity – when harnessed purposefully – takes us to unexpected places and provides new paths to fulfilment and success.
In the Masterclass on Purposeful Curiosity: the power of asking the right questions at the right time, Prof. Constantine Andropoulos will explain how accomplished individuals cut through the ‘noise’ of information overload and use the productive power of curiosity to discover, create and succeed, based on interviews with hyper-curious people -including Formula One engineers, scientists working to grow food on Mars, polar explorers, athletes, and Michelin-starred chefs-.
Organized by the Esade Entrepreneurship Institute (EEI) and the Esade MBA.
Constantine Andriopoulos
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School (City, University of London).
Constantine is the Director of Avyssos Advisors Ltd., a management consultancy that helps organizations disrupt their industries as well as a curious innovation and entrepreneurship researcher, passionate about teaching and helping founders or leaders make decisions that can improve their lives and those of people around them.
At Bayes Business School, he leads MSc, MBA, and Executive Education courses, encouraging learners to find solutions to big problems and take journeys into the unknown by starting new ventures or developing new products in large organizations. He also heads Bayes X (Research Center for Innovation and Disruption), one of the leading scholarly centers focusing on disruptive innovation. Constantine lives in London.
Purposeful Curiosity: The Power of Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time
By Constantine Andriopoulos, PhD
Professor of Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School provides his masterclass on how accomplished individuals use their curiosity to reach challenging goals and provides nine common practices to push boundaries and make new discoveries.
We have a love affair with people who plunge into new experiences and push limits. We admire those who imagine the unimaginable, solve enduring mysteries, turn the impossible into possible and help us evolve. In Purposeful Curiosity, Dr. Constantine Andriopoulos lifts the veil on how accomplished individuals channel their curiosity to a particular purpose—toward advancing science and human understanding, discovering new lands and opportunities or reaching a significant goal. Purposeful curiosity gets you off the couch and propels you to solve complex puzzles, and teaches you how to immerse yourself in the unknown with clarity, passion, courage, and positivity.
Dr. Andriopoulos interviews Formula One engineers, scientists working to grow food on Mars, opera singers, visual special effects artists, storm chasers, venture capitalists, Michelin-starred chefs, and many others to learn how they used their curiosity to achieve challenging goals. Although not everyone aspires to explore Antarctica or found a fact-checking website, we all search for meaning and progress. Whether we're trying to be better or the best in what we do, prepare for a new job or leave our current career for something more fulfilling, see through the “noise” of fake outrage and information overload, commercialize an innovation, improve health, or teach children the value of solving a puzzle, all of us can benefit from thinking like a purposefully curious person.
Purposeful Curiosity offers nine essential lessons that allow us to make use of our curiosity, to empower and help you replicate the experiences of others in order to reach your goals and thrive.