"If I was a mother, I would rather my child watch a video like that and not understand it and be inquisitive about what it means.
"You ought to be inquisitive about that.
Both brothers were fascinated by Asia, a favoured holiday destination, and the parents encouraged their sons to be inquisitive about the world: Alex was only 16, but had just returned from a six-month student exchange in Singapore.
Instead of leading a conversation with the latest news about your life, says Ellermeyer, "find out how you can serve other people". Be inquisitive about others and when you learn about them, try to suggest a book or article they may want to read or an event they might want to attend.
Be inquisitive about what they are learning.
Be inquisitive about which medications they use, whether they will prescribe more than one medication, and how they decide upon dosage adjustments.
They are inquisitive about each other's practice in all its minutiae – training regimes, learning lines, hours spent honing their craft through repetition.
Now, they are inquisitive about what the great bargains are out there.
Many of his clients are inquisitive about his ink, and being his own boss means he can dress as he pleases, but that wasn't always the case.
Currently we denigrate these folks as nerds, suggesting that there is something somehow odd about someone who is inquisitive about how nature works and willing to do the hard detail work to find out.
