One day, I saw an article in a newspaper about a woman who was doing photojournaling workshops (adding meaningful captions to photos). I sensed that she was not the originator of these workshops but that she was part of a larger group. I got the 800 number (this was in the 1990s) of Creative Memories. I was only interested in talking abo…
One day, I saw an article in a newspaper about a woman who was doing photojournaling workshops (adding meaningful captions to photos). I sensed that she was not the originator of these workshops but that she was part of a larger group. I got the 800 number (this was in the 1990s) of Creative Memories. I was only interested in talking about franchising workshops but that call led to speaking twice at CM national conventions and sales of $35,000 of my book Turning Memories Into Memoirs and The Photo Scribe/ How to Photojournal Your Stories. I thought I was in heaven! I attribute this windfall to good luck and pursuing my curiosity.(BTW, in those wonderful days before Amazon killed web bookstore sales, people continued to order books long after I had returned home.)
Denis, I hadn't thought of curiosity as part of this equation, but I think you're exactly right. I think that one can write without curiosity—but not for long. In between the sentences, there has to be a line that pops out that tells you WHY you are pursuing this subject. I like to think of curiosity as embedded in our DNA. Some folks may end up with a larger dose. (No judgment here!)
And then some of us use the itch of curiosity to activate our pencil or pen or our fingers on the keyboard.
While I was thinking of entrepreneurial curiosity, you are absolutely right about artistic curiosity. Thanks for pointing it out, it contributes much to my comment.
One day, I saw an article in a newspaper about a woman who was doing photojournaling workshops (adding meaningful captions to photos). I sensed that she was not the originator of these workshops but that she was part of a larger group. I got the 800 number (this was in the 1990s) of Creative Memories. I was only interested in talking about franchising workshops but that call led to speaking twice at CM national conventions and sales of $35,000 of my book Turning Memories Into Memoirs and The Photo Scribe/ How to Photojournal Your Stories. I thought I was in heaven! I attribute this windfall to good luck and pursuing my curiosity.(BTW, in those wonderful days before Amazon killed web bookstore sales, people continued to order books long after I had returned home.)
Denis, I hadn't thought of curiosity as part of this equation, but I think you're exactly right. I think that one can write without curiosity—but not for long. In between the sentences, there has to be a line that pops out that tells you WHY you are pursuing this subject. I like to think of curiosity as embedded in our DNA. Some folks may end up with a larger dose. (No judgment here!)
And then some of us use the itch of curiosity to activate our pencil or pen or our fingers on the keyboard.
Without curiosity, I'm not sure what I'd do.
While I was thinking of entrepreneurial curiosity, you are absolutely right about artistic curiosity. Thanks for pointing it out, it contributes much to my comment.