What is growth mindset curiosity?

Growth mindset curiosity is a concept in personal epistemology: When you become genuinely curious about something judgment tends to fall away on its own.

Example: A tech lead reviewing a pull request catches herself thinking 'why would anyone write it this way?' She pauses and replaces the thought with 'how did you arrive at this approach?' The engineer explains a constraint she didn't know about. The code stays, the relationship strengthens, and she learns something. Curiosity didn't just replace judgment — it produced better information.

This concept is part of Phase 5 (Observation Without Judgment) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for observation without judgment.