Benoit Denizet-Lewis

You've Changed is immediately fascinating. In a world that flips fast, personal change can be elective, mandatory, or downright accidental. Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us on a deeply considered yet hilarious ride that explores the promises, challenges, validity, and possibility of transformation in all its forms. Read this book; you'll leave it changed for the better

Ellen Hendriksen, clinical psychologist and bestselling author of How To Be Yourself

Entertaining . . . covers a tremendous amount of ground, literally and figuratively

Intentionally intellectual, geographically expansive . . . Denizet-Lewis is a master at effortlessly weaving bits of research into his narrative

Benoit Denizet-Lewis has written about some pretty strange and fascinating people in his career . . . Sit! Read! Enjoy!

A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically

The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation

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 converters, 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.

Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Praise for You’ve Changed

You've Changed is immediately fascinating. In a world that flips fast, personal change can be elective, mandatory, or downright accidental. Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us on a deeply considered y ...

Praise for Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Entertaining . . . covers a tremendous amount of ground, literally and figuratively

You've Changed is immediately fascinating. In a world that flips fast, personal change can be elective, mandatory, or downright accidental. Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us on a deeply considered y ...

Praise for Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Entertaining . . . covers a tremendous amount of ground, literally and figuratively

You've Changed is immediately fascinating. In a world that flips fast, personal change can be elective, mandatory, or downright accidental. Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us on a deeply considered y ...

Praise for Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Entertaining . . . covers a tremendous amount of ground, literally and figuratively

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