Curiosity in Combat: Chris Kolenda Shares Insights

Curiosity in Combat

Listen to Choose to Be Curious #247: Curiosity in Combat, with Chris Kolenda

If you actually want to help people, you have to start at curiosity. They have to come to the conclusion that you get them. You can’t lecture people into that conclusion. You have to do it through the questions that you ask – and by listening. – Colonel (retired) Chris Kolenda

He was the first American to have both fought the Taliban as a commander in combat and to have successfully negotiated with them in peace talks.

We can learn a lot from his stories. (-excerpt from Lynne Borton, Choose to Be Curious)