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You’ve Changed

byBenoit Denizet-Lewis

The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation

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As obsessed as we are with change, we’re also often wildly suspicious of those who claim to have pulled it off.

In You’ve Changed, Benoit Denizet-Lewis shows how so much of what we think we know about self-transformation is wrong. Profound change is often less self-reinvention than self-discovery, and personal change isn’t always so personal — it’s better understood as a hazardous team sport.

Drawing on insights from psychologists, neuroscientists and spiritual teachers, Denizet-Lewis confronts our ambivalent relationship with change by taking us inside the lives of people who’ve transformed themselves — or say they have. From psychedelic reality benders to political converts, from a seemingly transformed murderer to a bully-turned-Buddhist, Denizet-Lewis brings curiosity, empathy and humour to this compelling investigation of the many ways we try to reimagine ourselves — and what’s at stake when we do.

You’ve Changed challenges us to think more deeply about how real transformation happens and is essential reading for anyone who’s ever wanted to change something meaningful about themselves, or someone they love.

What a blazingly smart, funny, thoughtful, and moving book about the hope—and the occasional limits—of human transformation. In You’ve Changed, Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us right into the trembling heart of how tempting it is to try to change your life. I found this to be a deeply humane book, offering the reader both permission to evolve and compassion for the times it might not quite work the way we hoped

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of All the Way to the River

About Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Benoit Denizet-Lewis is an associate professor at Emerson College and a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He has written three previous books, including America Anonymous and the New York Times bestseller Travels With Casey.
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  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • ISBN: 9780241480328
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Price: £25.00
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