The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

Our Candlelight Chat on Introverts, Meaning, and the Future of AI

Will your natural strengths be at a premium, in the age of AI?

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Susan Cain
Oct 26, 2026
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Thanks so much to those of you who came out for last week’s fascinating Candlelight Chat, featuring Dr. Diane Hamilton — the behavioral expert and author of ADAPTIVE CURIOSITY: How Humans Find Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines.

We talked about:

*The cultural obsession with tying our identities to our work, and filtering all activities through the lens of productivity;

*Why introverts’ natural strengths will be at a premium in the age of AI;

*Examples of people who found meaning after switching careers or pursuits (and my own recent pivot to studying mythology and depth psychology);

*Whether AI might replace human artists and writers — or whether human-created art and writing might come to have MORE value than before;

*The simple act of paying attention as a profound source of meaning;

*How to figure out what’s holding you back from being curious - and how to take Diane’s Curiosity Code Index;

and much more.

We invite our subscribers to watch and listen below; and you can pre-order Diane’s new book here.

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