Practical Curiosity: The Guide to Life, Love & Travel

by Alex Berger

Like Dim Sum for the curious mind.



Practical Curiosity delivers a collection of easily consumable insights into what it means to be a well rounded, curious and passionate individual. From carefully crafted professional advice to altering how you engage with your peers, Practical Curiosity is passionate, and unlike any other inspirational book you’ve read.



Alex Berger combines a series of grounded thought exercises with comical and insightful life advice drawn from first-hand experiences and tailored directly to explaining many of the key challenges that arise in the lives of driven individuals.



This is the perfect read for polymaths with a thirst for knowledge or if you’ve been attracted by the ideal of being a renaissance man or woman and often struggle with the complexities that result from being a highly driven generalist.



In Practical Curiosity, you will gain new ways of exploring and relating to key parts of a life well lived. At the same time, you will gain tools and strategies for explaining topics you’ve long struggled to communicate with friends, loved ones, and colleagues.

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2017

About the author

Alex Berger is an American writer originally from the Southwest. He moved to Denmark in 2011 to study Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen and later made Copenhagen his home. His years in Denmark sparked an enduring interest in how language reflects culture, humor, and everyday life. He is the author of The Essential Book of Danish Sayings, Practical Curiosity: The Guide to Life, Love & Travel and the writer behind the travel blog VirtualWayfarer. He has also been recognized for his landscape and travel photography and is the inventor of the MistDefender photography lens cloth.

Reviews

[Joshua Clayton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like:

I like the mental experimentation ideas in this book that use visualizations. I love the whole "try something different and new" approach he offers also. Very well presented.

[Breanna Miele · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I found some parts of this book interesting such as the sections on travel and travel companions, language, and culture. Some of personal musings and anecdotes were not as interesting to me. I think this would have been more successful as separate books as the ideas/topics skipped around too much for my taste.

[Aimee · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic look at the thoughts and experiences of a true renaissance man. Reflections and exercises which flow together and leave the reader with bite-sized food for thought on a variety of life’s most important subjects.

Definitely worth a read, and keeping on the coffee table to browse and return to repeatedly.