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Adaptive Curiosity

How Humans Find Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines
By Diane Hamilton
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Find direction and meaning when AI reshapes your career and identity. In Adaptive Curiosity: How Humans Find Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines, behavioural scientist and Fulbright Specialist Dr. Diane Hamilton provides a structured method for rebuilding direction when automation displaces the roles, routines, and... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Find direction and meaning when AI reshapes your career and identity.

In Adaptive Curiosity: How Humans Find Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines, behavioural scientist and Fulbright Specialist Dr. Diane Hamilton provides a structured method for rebuilding direction when automation displaces the roles, routines, and identities that once organised professional life. Drawing on her Curiosity Code Index® and research across thousands of organisations, Hamilton shows how curiosity becomes a stabilising 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 organisational 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781394455171

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 October 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 476g

Pages: 240

Collections

Career Development Diane Hamilton Happiness & Mental Health Mindset & Self Help Motivation & Inspiration Non-Fiction Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

DR. DIANE HAMILTON is an internationally recognized behavioral scientist, global keynote speaker, author, and Fulbright Specialist whose work focuses on curiosity, human behavior, and organizational performance. She developed the scientifically validated Curiosity Code Index , which identifies the factors that inhibit curiosity, and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar as one of the leading minds in management and leadership. She serves on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education and previously served as MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business & Technology. A Forbes contributor, her articles have generated more than two million views, and her work has appeared in Inc., Investor’s Business Daily, SHRM, and other leading business publications.

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