About the Possible Self
Awarded the Gold IBPA Book Award in the Psychology category.
Sometimes success isn’t enough—discover how to achieve lasting, whole-life fulfillment through a simple five-stage plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves.
Personality psychologist explores the reasons behind feeling unfulfilled in our lives despite achieving success and offers the holistic steps necessary to achieve lasting and whole-life change.
We’re often told that the key to success in life involves advancing in our careers, but why do feel so stuck and unfulfilled when everything seems to be going right?
Adult development expert Maja Djikic explains that in order to discover our purpose and achieve real, lasting change, we need to move beyond narrowly targeted ideas and strategies like changing our mindset or slightly altering our behavior, and instead go deeper and focus on our innate desires.
Djikic claims that sustained change can only happen when all five parts of ourselves move in the same direction and at the same time. She introduces a transformational system called the Wheel of Change—a simple, five-segment plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves: Desires, Actions, Emotions, Thoughts, and Body.
By understanding the mechanisms of these five integral parts, you will be able to escape the paradox of success without happiness and move towards your own path of fulfilling self-development.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Mar 05, 2024 | 240 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781523006014
Ellen J. Langer, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; Fellow at the Sloan Foundation; and author of The Mindful Body
"A fresh new approach to the age-old problem of self-change. I recommend it to anyone interested in lifelong development."
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy and Marcel Desautels Professor of Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
“A deftly articulated map and compass to the joys and difficulties of making changes, small and large, to one’s ways of being, told, importantly, in a voice at once therapeutic and awakening—a voice you want to hear when you want a partner to think and feel with.”
Keith Oatley, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychology, University of Toronto
“Panoramic in insight and practical in approach, this book will gently guide you through your own self-development journey. Whether your aim is to better understand or to change yourself, here you’ll find the tools you need.”
