Adaptive Curiosity: How Humans Find Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines
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BookPal × TalezoAdaptive Curiosity
Find direction and meaning when AI reshapes your career and identity
In Adaptive Curiosity: How Humans Find Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines, behavioral scientist and Fulbright Specialist Dr. Diane Hamilton provides a structured method for rebuilding direction when automation displaces the roles, routines, and identities that once organized professional life. Drawing on her Curiosity Code Index® and research across thousands of organizations, Hamilton shows how curiosity becomes a stabilizing force during disruption.
Hamilton identifies four FATE inhibitors—Fear, Assumptions, Technology, and Environment—that block reinvention and offers a repeatable process for overcoming each one. Readers learn to select meaningful pursuits, use intelligent tools as creative partners, and build contribution through learning, relationships, and community. The book moves beyond diagnosis to practical life design in an AI-driven world.
Readers will also find:
- A validated framework for diagnosing the specific psychological barriers that prevent individuals from engaging with new opportunities
- Practical strategies for converting curiosity into sustained direction, contribution, and purposeful action during career transitions
- Methods for using AI and intelligent tools as collaborative partners rather than threats to professional identity and relevance
- Guidance for managers and executives leading teams through technological disruption, forced transitions, and organizational restructuring
- Techniques for rebuilding identity and meaning when traditional career structures no longer provide a clear forward path
Ideal for professionals navigating automation-driven career shifts, mid-career adults reassessing direction after disruption, managers guiding teams through technological change, and students preparing for a non-linear workforce, Adaptive Curiosity delivers a practical system for turning uncertainty into purposeful reinvention.
Details
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Author
- Diane Hamilton
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- Oct 27, 2026
- ISBN-13
- 9781394455171
- Pages
- 240
- Carton quantity
- 36 copies
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| 1,000+ | $16.24 | 42% off list |
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