I’ve been living in Puerto Rico on and off for the past three weeks and four days, and I’ve come to one conclusion… There’s something deeply wrong with me. 😂 I picked up a 500-page book about salt as a bit of a joke. Now I can’t sit through a meal without giving an unsolicited TED Talk. It started innocently: “Did you know Roman soldiers were often paid in salt? That’s where the word salary comes from.” People found it interesting. That was my first mistake. Because then I learned that salt wasn’t just a seasoning, it was infrastructure. It shaped trade routes, built empires, financed economies, sparked wars, preserved food, healed wounds, sustained armies, and even inspired Gandhi’s Salt March, one of history’s most powerful acts of civil disobedience. It’s the only rock we willingly eat… and for thousands of years it quietly influenced the course of civilization. Now every time I pass a salt shaker, I don’t just see seasoning, I see history, economics, politics, biology, chemistry, and human ingenuity all sitting on the table. The biggest lesson wasn’t actually about salt. It was this: Nothing is boring. There are only things we haven’t looked at closely enough. Every object, every person, every business, every technology has layers of history and meaning waiting to be uncovered. The more curious we become, the more extraordinary the ordinary becomes. Curiosity changes how you see the world. And that’s a habit worth cultivating. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have an overwhelming urge to tell someone where the word salary comes from… #Curiosity #Learning #History #Innovation #Leadership #LifelongLearning #Perspective #Growth