Seeing Life Through Curious Eyes, Not Privileged Eyes!

The ocean is fascinating!!!! 🌊

It's Friday evening, 14 August 2026, and I’m sitting at Camps Bay in Cape Town, looking at this enormous body of water, and I caught myself thinking: How does the ocean know where to stop? 😂 I know. There are scientific answers. Tides. Gravity. The moon. Geography. I get it.

But still… HOW?!

How are waves formed? How deep does it actually go? What is happening underneath all that water while I’m sitting here casually having a drink? And how can something be so beautiful, so powerful and so peaceful at the same time?

And then another thought hit me. I never want to become so privileged that I stop being curious. Because sometimes privilege changes the way we see things. And I’m not only talking about money. Privilege can simply be access repeated often enough that something extraordinary starts feeling ordinary.

The first time you fly, you probably stare out of the window. After enough flights, you close the window blind. The first time you stay in a beautiful hotel, you notice everything. Eventually, you walk into the room while answering emails. The first time you travel somewhere beautiful, you take in every detail. Eventually, it becomes “Oh, I’ve been here before.” The first time you achieve something you once prayed for, you celebrate. Eventually, it becomes another Tuesday. I'm not gonna lie.......that scares me a little. Because I don’t think the danger of privilege is only entitlement. Sometimes the danger of privilege is losing your sense of wonder.

Privileged eyes say: “I’ve seen this before.” Curious eyes say:

• Wait… how does this work?

• Who built this?

• What happened here?

• Why does this exist?

• What can I learn from this?

• Can you believe I get to experience this?

There is something incredibly powerful about refusing to become too familiar with extraordinary things. And I think this matters in business too. The minute we believe we’ve seen everything, we stop asking questions.

• We walk into businesses and assume we understand them.

• We meet people and decide there is nothing they can teach us.

• We enter rooms believing we already know what will be said.

• We experience success and stop examining how it happened.

• We stop being students.

But curiosity is one of the greatest advantages you can carry through life. Curious people notice things.

• They ask another question.

• They listen longer.

• They explore.

• They challenge assumptions.

• They discover opportunities that people who “already know” walk straight past.

  
  

And perhaps that’s why I want to protect my curiosity.

• I want to travel and still look out of the window.

• I want to enter beautiful spaces and still notice the architecture.

• I want to meet successful people and still ask them how they think.

• I want to achieve things I once prayed for and still remember that there was a version of me who would have been blown away by the life I now sometimes call normal.

• I want to sit in front of an ocean I’ve seen many times before and still think: This thing is INCREDIBLE.

  
  

Because maybe staying grounded isn't only about remembering where you come from. Maybe it is also about never becoming too important, too experienced, too successful or too exposed to be impressed by life.

So today, sitting at Camps Bay, I’m reminding myself:

• Look again.

• Ask the silly questions.

• Be fascinated.

• Notice things.

• Wonder.

I sat and wrote a note to myself: Dear Keitumetse Lekaba, don't allow repeated access to turn miracles into furniture. See the world through curious eyes, not privileged eyes.

There is still so much to be amazed by, repeatedly so.

Yours in never losing my sense of wonder,

The Business Doctor Keitumetse Lekaba