Curiosity Unleashed
Kwaku Aning Connects through Curiosity
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On the latest episode of A Life Worth Working, Dana and I chat with Kwaku Aning, a man who has turned curiosity into a superpower. As a child, Kwaku often got in trouble for talking too much in school, but now he is building a career through that same desire to connect ideas and people. Those seeming flaws have become the foundation of his work today.
But it certainly wasn’t a linear path! Kwaku went from engineering to musician to jingle singer to charter school teacher to IT to edtech and finally to consulting, he thinks! We can probably call it “consulting” because there isn’t quite a good way to describe what he does today.
Kwaku lives for questions. He thrives on parables and analogical thinking, constantly seeing connections where others see confusion. Whether he’s helping someone launch a new venture or facilitating meet-ups, Kwaku’s gift is making people see what’s possible when curiosity leads the way.
So you won’t be surprised to hear that Kwaku also ended up flipping the interview on Dana and me. The result is a joyful conversation about how to turn what others might view as “not fitting in” into a calling and a life worth working.
Click on Kwaku’s episode below!👇🏼
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