Know Yourself

We may spend years mastering the external world - acquiring degrees, advancing careers, building families - without ever turning inwards to make sense of the person orchestrating it all: ourselves.

This book is a guide to the elusive, essential task of self-knowledge. With clarity, gentleness and depth, it explores why we are often mysteries to ourselves, how our childhoods quietly script our behaviours and why seemingly trivial experiences - an abrupt word, a strange dream, a lingering mood - can hold the keys to profound insight.

Drawing on the wisdom of philosophy and psychotherapy, <em>Know Yourself</em> teaches us how to tune in to our inner signals, revisit the past without fear and better understand our desires, fears, patterns and longings. It is a call to begin the lifelong project of making sense of who we are - so that we might suffer less, connect more deeply with others and lead calmer, freer lives.