Curiosity as a practice | Julie Pham | TEDxBellevueWomen

Curiosity is often described as a personality trait focused on wanting to learn new things. What if we were to liken curiosity to a practice that starts with trying to understand ourselves first so that we can then be more open to understanding others? Dr. Julie Pham is the founder and CEO of CuriosityBased, which helps people practice curiosity in the world. She is the author of the #1 Amazon New Release and Bestseller 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work (2022). Dr. Pham was born in Saigon, Vietnam and came to the US with her parents as boat people in 1979. Her parents founded a Vietnamese newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, where she got her "real life MBA" by running it during the Great Recession. She has been recognized with many awards for her community leadership, including Female Founders Alliance Champions Award in Advocate category, Harvard Business School's Young American Leaders Program, German Marshall Memorial Fellow, and Puget Sound Business Journal ’40 under 40’ honoree. Dr. Pham earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in 2008 and graduated magna cum laude from University of California, Berkeley as a Haas Scholar in 2001. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx