Seekers Mindset Available Early Fall 2026

Advance Praise

  • Humans aren't meant to just be adaptable. We're meant to adapt. Rick Thomas shows us that adapting helps us achieve the most important goal of life: meaning. This book doesn't just inform, it inspires.

    —Ori Brafman, New York Times bestselling author

  • Seeker’s Mindset goes beyond just helping us understand our fast-changing world—it is a book that teaches us to embrace it, and grow in ways that will restore and fulfill us.

    —Alex Kajitani, Top 4 Finalist, National Teacher of the Year, and bestselling author

  • If you believe that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is going to be in our future in the next 10 to 15 years, then you need to read Seeker's Mindset. Rick Thomas provides a series of guidelines and ideas to unleash your curiosity and develop the mindset needed for entrepreneurial vision and growth.

    —David Martin, inventor of the SMART Board and cofounder of Nureva Inc.

  • Seeker's Mindset is a compelling read on the art of living with fortitude. Its most captivating insight: rather than letting fear dictate our lives, we can embrace curiosity, cultivate patience, and grow resilient, letting those qualities guide us toward new paths of growth and self-discovery.

    —Paula Pedene, author of A Sacred Duty: How a Whistleblower Took on the VA and Won

  • When the old playbooks no longer apply, Rick Thomas offers a broader, more human framework for navigating disruption—at work, at home, and within ourselves. Seeker's Mindset doesn't just describe the world we're living in—it helps you shape what comes next.

    —Mark Coopersmith, Faculty Director, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business; bestselling coauthor of The Other "F" Word

  • Rick Thomas says the quiet part out loud. Deeply meaningful and thoughtfully written, Seeker's Mindset is a candid, vulnerable account that many will recognize in themselves, asking a simple but powerful question: "How do we become not the something, but the someone we want to be?" An invaluable guide for how we respond to constant change—and how we might even learn to embrace it.

    —Jeff Lowe, former Chief Commercial Officer, SMART Technologies; Board Member, N50 Project

  • In this time of disorienting change, Seeker's Mindset is a balm of clarity. Rick Thomas hands us the wide-angle lens to take in what's unfolding around us and the microscope to look within—and realize we have what it takes to flourish.

    —Dr. Archana Mishra, Well-being Researcher and Podcaster

  • Rick Thomas draws on a career spent navigating rapid change to offer a practical guide for managing uncertainty. Blending thoughtful insight with a proven process, Seeker's Mindset helps readers not just navigate disruption but reshape how they respond to it—moving forward with greater confidence, clarity, and resilience.

    —Karl Mundorff, Executive Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Oregon State University

What if change isn’t a problem—but an invitation?

We are living through an Intertidal Moment—the turbulent space between what was and what is becoming. Familiar structures dissolve. Old scripts no longer bind. The path ahead is shrouded in fog.

For most of modern life, you didn't have to find your direction—you received it. Culture, careers, and institutions defined what a good life looked like and how to get there. No more. The milestones that once came with instructions now dissolve into a continuous "now what?"

Many try to outrun that question. Others cling to the guardrails of the past. But what if there were another way?

Seeker's Mindset offers exactly that. Not a book of predictions, not a destination—but your own formula for reading and harnessing the tides of change. A living framework for orientation that turns change from a force that happens to you into currents you can learn to navigate.

Drawing on cultural history, philosophy, and hard-won personal reflection, Seeker's Mindset reframes change not as disruption to survive, but as a natural and recurring condition of both human history and modern life—one that calls for awareness, resilience, and curiosity. It challenges the inherited narratives and the quiet pull of conformity that shrink your sense of agency, and shows you hold far more of it than you were ever taught to believe. The invitation is to reclaim authorship: over how you see the world, how you act within it, and the future you help shape.

Disengagement is a choice—often a costly one. Purpose and direction aren't found by waiting for stability to return, but by cultivating the capacity to stay present, reflective, and responsive amid the flux.

This is for anyone who senses the old maps no longer fit the world they're navigating—and is ready to draw new ones. It's the beginning of a shift the old scripts never allowed: from being something to becoming someone.

Stop waiting for the fog to lift. A Seeker learns to move within it.

Seeker's Mindset Book Cover

Seeker’s Mindset noun \ˈsē-kərz ˈmīn(d)-ˌset\

A disciplined yet unconventional philosophy for engaging life—shaped by curiosity, resilience, reflection, and idealism—in which a person meets change, uncertainty, and transformation not by waiting for direction but by learning to read its currents; the ongoing practice of reclaiming agency over how one perceives and acts in the world, in pursuit of understanding, growth, and purpose—the goal: to be someone rather than something.