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Category: Workbooks & Guided Journals

Psychological exercises to develop self-understanding

One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are. If we're asked directly to describe ourselves, our minds tend to go blank. We can't just sum ourselves up. We need prompts and suggestions and more detailed enquiries that help tease out and organise our picture of ourselves.

This book is designed to help us create a psychological portrait of who we are with the use of some unusual, oblique, entertaining and playful prompts. The book is filled with exercises to help us develop our self-understanding within key areas of our lives - helping to create a rich picture of our existence.

Chapters include:

  • Psychology
  • Relationships
  • Sex
  • Other People
  • Work
  • Utopia
  • Sorrow & Compassion
  • Re-enchantment

Example exercises:

Psychology, Conscience & Guilt

  • How active is your conscience?
  • What makes you feel guilty?
  • What do you rather easily allow yourself to get away with?

Work & Ambitions

  • Rank in order of importance for you in your career: Money, Status, Creativity, Social Impact, Colleagues.
  • What do you hope for in each area?

Utopia & Utopian Cities

  • Think of three cities you've really liked: what are they getting right?
  • What do you you think the ideal city would be like?

Hardback journal | 160 pages | 228mm x 160mm

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Julian ★★★★★

The exercises that ask you to finish a sentence about yourself caught me off guard — I filled three pages without noticing the time. It's not a book you read once, it's one you keep returning to when something about your choices stops making sense.

Alexander Z. ★★★★★

I didn't expect a workbook to make me cry on a Tuesday night, but the exercise on childhood memories got me. I've filled about half of it in two weeks, and I keep noticing little patterns in how I react to things. It's not a quick fix, but it actually makes you sit with the questions instead of skim

Evelyn E. ★★★★★

The exercise that asks you to describe yourself in third person caught me off guard, but it ended up being the most revealing page in the whole book. I've filled journals before that just had blank lines, and this one actually gives you psychological prompts to work through instead.