Why Am I Like This? How Can I Change?: A Restless Brain Book

In the first part of our lives, we live according to the roles assigned to us and evaluate ourselves according to these rules. Then, when we realize that this does not satisfy us, for the first time, we ask, “What do I really want?” and get angry at ourselves for not asking this question sooner.

Welcome to the second part of your life.

The first part was not a lie. We have not lived a lie so far. We have lived what we had to live to get to this day.

The real question is, what will we do from now on?

Jung offers a half-joking suggestion for this “second half of our lives,” which we were caught extremely unprepared for: “There should be adult initiation schools.” There may not be such a school, but there is someone who has been captivated by this idea since he came across this sentence: Emre Özarslan, also known as Restless Brain, brings together his dream “academic staff” from psychologists and therapists to philosophers, scientists to artists, and offers us the opportunity to think about ourselves in Why Am I Like This? How Can I Change?. An “army of educators” including names like Jung, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud teaches us to free ourselves from the past and transform in line with our desires.

If you are ready, let’s get started…