If You Want to Know If Someone Is Worth Your Time, Use the Ted Lasso Curiosity Rule
<p>Good TV scenes are, in their essence, well-observed reflections of real life.</p>
<p>Like when Ted Lasso — the lovable mid-Western football coach on Apple TV’s show of the same name — is challenged to a darts match with the show’s baddie Rupert who assumes he can’t play.</p>
<p>Rupert assumed wrong.</p>
<p>Just before he hits the target that wins him the game, Ted comes out with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTKYzzaNVto" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this little monologue</a>:</p>
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<p>Guys have underestimated me my entire life. And for years I never understood why, it used to really bother me.</p>
<p>Then one day I was driving my little boy to school and I saw this quote by Walt Whitman. It said: <strong>be curious, not judgemental</strong>.</p>
<p>I like that.</p>
<p>So I get back in my car and it hits me. All of them fellas that used to belittle me, not a single one of them were curious. They thought they had everything all figured out so they judged everything and they judged everyone.</p>
<p>And I realized that their underestimating of me — who I was had nothing to do with it. Because if they were curious they would have asked questions. Questions like, have you played a lot of darts, Ted? Which I would have answered, yes sir, I have.</p>
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<p><strong>Be curious, not judgemental.</strong></p>
<p>I call it the Ted Lasso rule. If you want a quick way to determine if someone is worth your time, are they curious? Do they ask you questions?</p>
<p>If not, are they worth even getting to know?</p>
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