Positive personality trait
Inquisitive
Eager to ask questions and learn more.
4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Asks how and why, then follows the answer with another question.
- Seeks out the people who know a subject and asks them how it works in practice.
- Checks the source behind a claim instead of taking it on trust.
Fits when a person characteristically asks questions in order to learn
Not when the interest becomes intrusive, suspicious, or focused on gossip
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Resume line Learned [system or trade] in [period] by questioning [engineers, users or senior staff], then wrote [guide or documentation] now used by [team or number of people].
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is inquisitive in the best way: within [period] they had asked enough good questions about [process or field] to spot [problem or improvement] that others had stopped seeing.
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Report card comment [Name] is inquisitive in class, and their follow-up questions often take a discussion further than planned.
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In a story, shown not told The guide said the bridge was three hundred years old. The boy wanted to know who had checked, and how.
The inquisitive apprentice asked what each tool changed in the finished joint.
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