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What if Stories Stopped?

Curious what you can learn about stories by wondering about a world without stories? Start your curiosity journey with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from ,The Book of What If...? : What if There Were No Stories?

What: What do people talk about around campfires in a world without stories?

Who: Who controls your imagination in a world without stories?

When: How do the past, present, and future communicate in a world without stories?

Where: Where doesn't exist in a world without stories?

How: How often do people feel fooled in a world without stories?

Why: Why don't people sleep as well in a world without stories?

Huh?: What is the word for "history" in a world without stories?

Wow!: What is your favorite book in a world without stories?

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What if Language Was Universal?

Get curious about communication without language barriers with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from ,The Book of What If...? : What if We All Spoke the Same Language?

What: What book are you most curious to read as it was originally written rather than its translation?

Who: Who are you most excited to have a conversation with now that you can both speak the same language?

When: During what century would you most like to live when everyone speaks the same language?

Where: Where would you finally go now that you speak the same language?

How: How many other things (e.g. food, art, religion, currency, units of measurement, etc.) might also be universal in a world where everyone speaks the same language?

Why: Why do people still misunderstand each other in a world where they all speak the same language?

Huh?: What language does everyone speak where everyone speaks the same language?

Wow!: Do you think people develop more or less slang, jargon, and colloquialisms when they all speak the same language?

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What if Imagination Was Your Only Limitation?

Get curious about what you could do if the only thing stopping you was inside your head with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from ,The Book of What If...? : What if You Had a Box That Could Make Anything

What: If you had a box that could make anything, what would you have the box make?

Who: Who would you share the box with to make something better than what you made?

When: When would you work on improving your imagination if it's your only limitation?

Where: Where do you go to increase your imagination when it's your only limitation?

How: How do you maintain a healthy imagination?

Why: Why did your imagination become your only limitation?

Huh?: After you increase your imagination, what becomes your new limitation?

Wow!: What is the best job in a world in a world with no imagination limitation?

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What if Your Life is a Song?

Let your curiosity about music move you as you discover what life would be like as a song with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from ,The Book of What If...? : What if You Made Music?

What: What genre of music is the song of your life?

Who: Who best performs the song of your life?

When: When do other people enjoy listening to the song of your life the most?

Where: Where is the song of your life played the most often?

How: How do people feel when they hear the song of your life?

Why: Why won't they play the song of your life on the radio?

Huh?: Would you rather have someone else write your life into a song or would you rather do it yourself?

Wow!: In a world where everyone's life is a song, who are the other 7 tracks you'd like on your 8-track tape?

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What if You Eat More Insects?

from ,The Book of What If...? : What if Humans Ate Insects as Our Primary Source or Food?

What: Is your favorite seasoning or condiment you put on your insects?

Who: Who would you rather be in a world where we eat more insects: an insect farmer or an insect chef?

When: When is your favorite day of the week to eat insects? Taco Tuesday or Pizza Friday?

Where: In a world where everyone eats insects all the time, where are insect farms found?

How: How do you cook your insects: grilled, battered and fried, ground up into flour and baked, soups, sprinkled on salads?

Why: Why might some vegetarians consider including insects in their diets?

Huh?: In a world where everyone is eating insects, how might scientists start to modify insects?

Wow!: What if before you bug out over eating bugs, you wonder about these "what ifs"?

What if an estimated 2 billion people already eat insects as a part of their regular diet? What if, thanks to their minimal resources requirements, the more people eating insects in place of pigs, chickens, cows, or fish, the better it is for our planet? What if, you (even vegetarians) are already eating bugs? Like peanut butter? The Food and Drug Administration allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments per one hundred grams of peanut butter!

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What if You Never Got Old?

When you're young, you can't wait to get older; when you're old, you wish you were younger: get curious about your age and how to stay curious forever with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from The Book of What If...? : What if You Could Be Young Forever?

What: In a world where you are the same age forever, what age will you be?

Who: Who is the oldest person you know in a world where you can be young forever?

When: When do you grow up in when you can be young forever?

Where: Where do you go on vacation in a world where you can be young forever?

How: How long do people live when they can be young forever?

Why: Why do people complain in a world where you can be young forever?

Huh?: Is any wisdom lost in a world where everyone can be young forever?

Wow!: What crime doesn't exist when everyone is young forever?

Bonus Curiosity: Would you rather: live for 100 years aging throughout as we do now or live for 50 years all at the age of your choosing?

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What if You're Living History?

Get curious about how history survives today with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from the Introduction to the "History" Chapter in The Book of What If...?

What: What is history exactly? Can you define it in three words or less?

Who: Who from history would you most like to sit next to on a rocket ship to Mars?

When: When is history? How long ago does something have to be in order to be "history"? How long ago does something need to be in order to be "historic"?

Where: Where does history come from? Do dogs bark about their history? Do only humans have history and, if so, where does it come from?

How: How is history advice for the future?

Why: Why do you think people 100 years in the future will value history more than people valued history 100 years ago in the past?

Huh?: How accurate do you think our understand of history really is? If it's not 100% accurate, what percent of the past would you say we actually understand as it truly was?

Wow!: What if you are living during the best time known to humans in our entire recorded history? How do you celebrate that each day?

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What if Life Was a Day?

Use your curiosity to contemplate life with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from ,The Book of What If...? : What if People Lived for Only One Day?

What: What is one thing you don't have time for when your life is a day?

Who: Who do you give the most of your time to when your life is a day?

When: If your life were a day, which day of the week would it be?

Where: Where do you spend the four hours in the middle of your day when your life is a day?

How: How do you make time for yourself when your life is a day?

Huh?: Do you wear a watch when your life is a day?

Wow!: Yum! What do you eat when your life is a day? What's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?

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What if You're Not the Only Person on the Planet?

Get curious about people and what propels them with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from the Introduction to the "People" Chapter in ,The Book of What If...?

What: What is one thing you do to get the most out of your life?

Who: Who makes you a better person?

When: When have you seen people achieving their potential?

Where: Where is your favorite place to go to be around other people?

How: How has a planet with so many different people kept from destroying itself (so far)?

Why: Why would you be excited to meet someone new?

Huh?: Who benefits more when you help someone else, them or you?

Wow!: What if, in understanding people as a whole, you can also develop a deeper understanding of the person that is you?

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What If Then Helped with Now?

Let your curiosity about history take over with this Curiosity-Based Thinking workout from ,The Book of What If...? : What if the Mongol Empire Helped the United States' Westward Expansion?

What: What is an obsolete product or service you wish still existed?

Who: Who would have benefited more from smartphones: ,Genghis Khan or the ,Pony Express?

When: When in time would you go back in order to learn something valuable for today?

Where: Where do you go to gather value from past events?

How: How was communication in the 19th century better than it is today? How about the 13th century?

Why: Why are people addicted to growth?

Huh?: If the past is prologue, what is the future?

Wow!: What if the past can help the present? Think of some advice, technology, insight, etc. you find valuable today and email it to yourself in the future (or write it down and put it in an envelope and mail it to yourself... get creative with how you relay your past message today to your present self in the future).

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