You've Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation - Hardcover

You've Changed : The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "A blazingly smart, thoughtful, funny, and moving book about the endless hopeand the occasional limitsof human transformation." Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and All the Way to the RiverFrom New York Times bestselling author Benoit Denizet-Lewis comes a timely, provocative, and deeply moving exploration of personal transformation in a period of roiling uncertainty. You've Changed investigates how we remake ourselvesand how identity, belief, and belonging shift in a world that won't stop doing the same.We live in an age obsessed with reinvention. On Instagram, in recovery meetings, through name-change petitions, lifestyle pivots, deconversion blogs, and political conversion manifestos, we're surrounded by stories of radical personal change. But what does it really mean to shed an old skinand why do some transformations inspire us while others raise our hackles Longtime New York Times Magazine writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis, known for his deeply reported and psychologically rich journalism, takes us on a freewheeling, wild-hearted journey into the mystery of human transformation. He introduces us to an unforgettable array of people in fluxincluding psychedelic reality benders, sexual and gender transitioners, ideological shapeshifters, seemingly reformed murderers, and an octogenarian grandmother trying to change her temperament ("Better late than never!" she says)as well as those working to engineer change: psychologists, neuroscientists, name-change specialists, even his own father, a breath and meditation teacher who once wrote a newsletter about "the art and science of transformation." Intertwined with those portraits of change is the author's own reckoningby turns painful, poignant, and hilariouswith his misfires and epiphanies.You've Changed is a book for anyone who's ever tried to become someone new, fix what felt broken, drag someone else into changing, or wondered whether real transformation is anything more than a myth we sell ourselves. Denizet-Lewis shows us that profound, positive change is possibleand offers an unexpected, sometimes counterintuitive set of approaches to help us get there. But this is no compass for the dogmatic or the quick-fix brigade. Change, he shows us, is slippery, scary, beautiful, often politically fraughtand best tackled with humility riding shotgun, holding the map upside down. Artikel-Nr. 9780062995438

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