‘No, the jumping frogs aren’t merely an unfortunate hassle for the frog tamer.  They are, in fact, the entire point.’*

It’s hard to control and be curious at the same time.  To be curious is about letting go and to letting come.  As Pema Chödrön has pointed out to a year of graduating students:

‘No one knows what is going to happen next.’**

Back in 986CE, Bjarni Herjulffson set off from Norway to Greenland.  When blown off course, he refused to explore some land spotted by his crew.  He got back on course for Greenland.  Later in life, he told this tale to his friend Leif Erikkson who was inspired to set out on his own journey of discovery. Erikkson set foot on the land Herjulffson refused to, the first known European to step out into North America.^

The gift lies beyond.  Curiosity takes us beyond the boundaries we construct.

(*From Seth Godin’s “forward” to Pema Chödrön’s Fail Fail Again Fail Better.)(**From Pema Chödrön’s Fail Fail Again Fail Better.)
(^Told by Rohit Bhargava in Non-Obvious.)