Read Your Mind

We all love stories. The young, the old, and everyone in between. We read them, watch them, binge them, quote them, and tell them our whole lives through.

But what if stories are more than entertainment? What if stories are actually instruction manuals for being human? Ancient tools designed to reveal our hidden nature and to show us how to bring it into balance.

In his nonfiction debut, bestselling author and long-time James Patterson co-author, Michael Ledwidge, reveals a simple, three-part way to understand yourself that has been championed not just by the greatest philosophers, psychologists, and scientists in Western civilization, but also by our most enduring stories.

Full of examples pulled from Hollywood films, myths, fairy tales, literature, psychology, philosophy, history, sports, and cutting-edge neurology, this thought-provoking work offers new, invaluable insights into how our emotions and brains work, how we achieve meaning, and how our greatest stories show us the path to our own happily ever after.

As page-turning as a James Patterson novel and as mind-opening and inspiring as the finest self-help books, Read Your Mind: A Storyteller's Guide to Understanding Stories and Yourself reveals a new simple way to understand stories, yourself, and other people on a level you never thought possible.