{"product_id":"you-aove-changed-the-promise-and-price-of-self-transformation-9780241480328","title":"You’ve Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compelling examination of the contemporary art of self-transformation, from the New York Times bestselling author  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.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780241480328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 28 Jul 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.3(H)x15.2(L)x2.7(W)400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 400\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eBenoit 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.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eWhat a\u003cb\u003e blazingly smart, funny, thoughtful, and moving\u003c\/b\u003e book about the hope—and the occasional limits—of human transformation. In \u003ci\u003eYou’ve Changed\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003cb\u003ea deeply humane book\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003e All the Way to the River \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenizet-Lewis pursues many \u003cb\u003eoffbeat examples\u003c\/b\u003e of self-reinvention.. combining \u003cb\u003eshrewd analysis\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eevocative reportage\u003c\/b\u003e, this offers an \u003cb\u003eentertaining \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003einsightful \u003c\/b\u003etake on humanity’s unappeasable drive to be different. Readers will be \u003cb\u003eriveted\u003c\/b\u003e * Publisher's Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating\u003c\/b\u003e... Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us on a \u003cb\u003edeeply considered \u003c\/b\u003eyet \u003cb\u003ehilarious \u003c\/b\u003eride that explores the promises, challenges, validity, and possibility of transformation in all its forms -- Ellen Hendriksen, clinical psychologist and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e How To Be Yourself \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombines reportage, research, and memoir in a \u003cb\u003efascinating \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003ebeautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e book that \u003cb\u003ecaptivated \u003c\/b\u003eme from the first page... \u003cb\u003eendlessly thought provoking and inspiring.\u003c\/b\u003e Read this book! -- David Sheff, author of \u003ci\u003e Beautiful Boy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenizet-Lewis’s \u003cb\u003ewide-ranging study\u003c\/b\u003e of change in an era when metamorphosis has become the head-spinning norm, is \u003cb\u003ewonderfully reported, often hilarious, and unfailingly captivating\u003c\/b\u003e -- Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of \u003ci\u003e We Survived the Night \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrgent \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eunifying... \u003c\/b\u003eI read \u003ci\u003eYou’ve Changed\u003c\/i\u003e with rapt interest and delight. But I also read the \u003ci\u003ehell\u003c\/i\u003e out of it—I annotated it, underlined it, dog-eared it, and scribbled in its margins, because I couldn’t help but find myself in it. You will too -- Tom Junod, author of \u003ci\u003e In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEye-opening\u003c\/b\u003e... Denizet-Lewis brings the curiosity and perception that make him one of \u003cb\u003eour best nonfiction writers to the topic of personal reinvention.\u003c\/b\u003e Reading this book will \u003cb\u003echange you for the better\u003c\/b\u003e -- James Kirchick, New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e Secret City \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003efascinating \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003erevelatory \u003c\/b\u003ebook should be read by anyone tempted by the promises of painless transformation -- Larissa MacFarquhar, author of \u003ci\u003e Stranger Drowning \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenoit Denizet-Lewis is \u003cb\u003ea born storyteller \u003c\/b\u003ewho writes with great \u003cb\u003ewisdom \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003ewit\u003c\/b\u003e. I loved his new book on change, a central obsession of our era that he thankfully rescues from easy-answer evangelists -- Deborah Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003e American Mirror \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenoit is a \u003cb\u003eremarkable \u003c\/b\u003ewriter and a journalist of the\u003cb\u003e first order\u003c\/b\u003e, as \u003ci\u003eYou’ve Changed\u003c\/i\u003e proves yet again. This is a \u003cb\u003edeeply reported, keenly intelligent, beautifully written book\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kevin Sessums, author of \u003ci\u003e Mississippi Sissy \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e I Left It on the Mountain \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenizet-Lewis \u003cb\u003edigs into why and how people change\u003c\/b\u003e, reminding us that it’s never too late to be the versions of ourselves we long to become -- Sharon Salzberg, author of \u003ci\u003e Real Change \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Benoit Denizet-Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49041662181593,"sku":"9780241480328","price":42.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780241480328.jpg?v=1785937185","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/you-aove-changed-the-promise-and-price-of-self-transformation-9780241480328","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}