## Summary The author shares his 20-year journey toward self-knowledge, exploring both his mind and emotions. He began by questioning his beliefs and reading extensively on personal development. Through experiences like meditation and participating in the Landmark Forum, he learned to embrace vulnerability and take responsibility for his life. ## Highlights With each new tool or insight I gained, the hold that my upbringing, my parents’ worldview, societal expectations, and default life scripts had over me was weakened. I began to see that I could *decide* who I wanted to be and how I wanted to feel. I wasn’t stuck with the natural temperament, skills, personality, or talents I was born with. My destiny was mine to author. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jf4z41zd8hmf8y6n12p8pajx)) - 💭 resonate with his initial story of introduction to self help In theory, all this knowledge should have prepared me for the challenges I was facing. In reality, it was all conceptual or theoretical knowledge, very little of it rooted in my personal experience. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jf4z8wnmpe2ehk5m4hsmvypp)) - 💭 the pitfall of purely propositional knowing