Serendipity and Learning

 Not sure if this is a generalization, but quite a few designers I have worked with have difficulties with English spelling. I have often thought that they are so visual that they have never bothered with getting spelling right at any point in their career. Also doesnt help that most design software doesnt exactly do spellchecks.  But I was reminded of it when yet another designer I was working with made quite a few basic spelling errors.  Strengths and weaknesses, plus these are strengths they hone so well and are used to someone else always come around and correct the spellings!

  In the 1950s Daniel Berlyne was one of the first psychologists to offer a comprehensive model of curiosity. He argued that we all seek the sweet spot between two deeply uncomfortable states: understimulation (coping with tasks, people, or situations that lack sufficient novelty, complexity, uncertainty, or conflict) and overstimulation. To that end we use either what Berlyne called “diversive curiosity” (as when a bored person searches for something— anything —to boost arousal) or what he called “specific curiosity” (as when a hyperstimulated person tries to understand what’s happening in order to reduce arousal to a more manageable level). [HBR] That got me thinking. Where does Curiosity and L&D intersect and how does curiosity motivate people to learn? A lot of times in an org context, people seek learning when they are looking for something specific or when there is a desire for knowledge. It may also be exploration of a topic. So, my argument is that L&D falls largel...