While Purposeful Curiosity started off decently, it went downhill fairly quickly. It's not a bad book, but it's full of all the same ideas any self-help book has repeated over the last few decades, while also making the same assumptions about just trying again that books like Never Play it Safe and The Third Door make.

On the good side, Constantine Andriopoulos, wants us to channel our curiosity to something bigger than just ourselves. He asks us to not just consume research materials, but to move past research and into producing something for others that will benefit their lives.

On the mediocre front, he gives readers the same platitudes that permeate the self help genre. Have a positive outlook. View a setback as a learning opportunity. If you're afraid it means you're going in the right direction.

On the not so good, he never makes the leap to recognise that everyone he talks about has had some benefit that let them take 12 kicks at the can and that anyone dealing with scarcity has one shot, then they might be looking at living on the street. The book is full of stories of successful people, who the author admits, outlasted everyone else that tried similar things. He doesn't get into how they outlasted others, passing it off as some handwave unmentioned method of just keeping going.

Should you read it? I guess if you haven't read much in the business genre, or the success genre, or any self-help book that tries to help you turn into your best self. If you've read anything like that, then you've read this book.

It simply retreads old ground with new stories of success without providing any pathway that seems widely applicable outside of an affluent reader that can take 12 shots and fall back on a good job, or their parents money, to take that 13th shot.