Key points

Curiosity brings us closer to others than tolerance ever could.

We don’t connect through silence, but through honest, awkward questions.

Being curious is a better sign of respect than being merely polite.

There’s an emptiness in the word “tolerance.” Tolerance gets thrown around as a virtue, as if it’s enough to earn us gold stars in some social morality game. But the truth is, it’s a word that feels more like a sigh than a handshake. It feels like holding your breath through a conversation you don’t want to have, with a person you’d rather not be talking to. Still, you do anyway because you’re trying to be “tolerant.”

I get it. We’re tired. The world is loud, complicated, and exhausting. Everyone’s shouting, or at least it feels that way, and it’s tempting to set up em

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