{"id":3479,"date":"2025-12-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:05:05","slug":"the-power-of-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/the-power-of-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highly-effective principals can often transform challenges from a threat into an opportunity. One unique strategy is to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartbrief.com\/original\/how-curiosity-can-help-you-change-opinions-and-win-arguments?utm_term=0D8D01C3-DCB4-4CFF-B855-A92CDA28919B&amp;lrh=2763b2151d2a144eedea60da23622eb970684a3c77df4b2ce285eac6defa7295&amp;utm_campaign=77F8DA5B-9982-431B-9E20-444163A3CF79&amp;utm_content=229205C8-6F00-4B5A-A84D-A8AE69CF3AAA&amp;utm_source=brief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>the power of curiosity<\/strong><\/a>. This has the potential to change a parent or teacher&#8217;s attitude by expressing a desire to learn instead of becoming argumentative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an FBI undercover agent for 24 years, LaRae Quy used this approach to defuse situations that were much more serious than the conflicts school principals face. As she points out, &#8220;It&#8217;s often not until someone asks us to explain a concept that we realize our limited understanding of it.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply put, the effective use of this unique strategy has the potential to lead to reasonable conflict resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly-effective principals can often transform challenges from a threat into an opportunity. One unique strategy is to use the power of curiosity. This has the potential to change a parent or teacher&#8217;s attitude by expressing a desire to learn instead of becoming argumentative. As an FBI undercover agent for 24 years, LaRae Quy used this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[352,576,18,702],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conflict-resolution","tag-larae-quy","tag-leadership-styles","tag-power-of-curiosity","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}