Description
This is truly a hero’s journey, populated with hippies and presidents, psychology and celebrity, success and failure and the wisest of lessons. For five decades, Ken Dychtwald has professionally and personally explored the possibilities of human potential and purposeful longevity. Spearheading the Age Wave movement, his thought-leadership has helped prepare the world for both the challenges and opportunities of our increasing longevity. His visionary ideas challenge us to reimagine the lengthening lifecourse with multiple reinventions along the way and compelling new roles for today’s modern elders. This fully updated Radical Curiosity is a guide that shows us just how to stay curious at any phase in life, as told through a series of illustrative episodes from Ken’s life. Using memoir and storytelling to illustrate a process that is both ambitious and humble, Dychtwald shares experiences not just of success and failure, but of the nuanced spaces between. Now, with the newly revised (post-COVID) trade paperback edition of Radical Curiosity, Ken further explores his own experience and life lessons as he grows older himself. We get the incredible personal stories and lessons from Ken’s life—one grounded in the vitality of life-long curiosity and pathfinding innovation.
President Jimmy Carter –
I’ve learned from Ken Dychtwald for years and am convinced that he is today’s most innovative and original thinker on the important subjects of aging and longevity.
Lisa Genova, PhD. Neuroscientist, Best-selling author of Still Alice –
A masterful storyteller, Ken Dychtwald takes us on the wild, grand adventure of his self-examined life. This is truly a hero’s journey, populated with hippies and presidents, psychology and celebrity, success and failure, and the wisest of lessons.
Deepak Chopra, MD –
Ken Dychtwald maps out where success intersects with meaning to find your own unique crossing.
Michael Murphy, Founder and Chairman of the Esalen Institute, Best-selling author of Golf in the Kingdom and The Life We Are Given –
This book soars somewhere between Forrest Gump and Jack Kerouac. It’s part intimate autobiography, part rollicking adventure story, part cultural anthropology. Through his remarkable encounters and unusual cast of characters, Dychtwald gives us a unique window into the spiritual aspirations, moral conflicts, vocational dilemmas, and ups and downs of the pursuit of consciousness expansion and mindful adulthood over the last half century. This is a modern-day Siddhartha story.
Peter H. Diamandis, MD, Founder, XPRIZE, Executive Chairman, Singularity University, and author of Abundance, Bold and The Future Is Faster Than You Think –
Driven by the engines of curiosity, compassion and continual self-improvement, Ken Dychtwald has emerged as one of the world’s leading pathfinders for untapping human potential – at every stage of life. In Radical Curiosity, we are given a front row seat to Dychtwald’s encounters with remarkable people and life lessons regarding love, family, money, work, risk-taking, success, aging and death. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand how a truly revolutionary thinker goes about trying to change the world.